Christmas is celebrated once a year all over the world. It is not celebrated by Christians only. Non-Christians, people of other faiths, even people of no faith at all, also celebrate it. In some countries, it is celebrated nationally. In some others, it is celebrated as a national holiday. It is quite correct to describe Christmas as an inter-faith, international celebration.

But while it has become a worldwide, universal celebration, there are many all over the world who neither know its real reason nor the one in whose name it is celebrated.

This article seeks to explain the real reason behind the event and to help point to the one whose birth more than two thousand years ago is the real reason for the celebration.

There is indeed a real reason behind Christmas celebration. The Scripture is trite in this regard.

First ~ Christmas is a time of real good news. When the angel first brokered the news of the birth which has come to be celebrated as Christmas, he described it as good news (Lk. 2:10-12). According to him, the good news was that a Saviour was born to the world (Lk. 2:10-12). The Saviour’s birth which we now celebrate as Christmas is good news indeed (Lk. 2:10-12). Christmas is therefore a day of good news, that the world has one who is her Saviour (Lk. 2:10-12). Therefore, as we celebrate Christmas, we must never forget the good news behind the celebration.

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