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2016: The Year in Review — VIDEO

The Las Vegas Review-Journal takes a look at the top moments from 2016.

Christmas in North Korea: Lights and trees, but devoid of Jesus

If Santa Claus stops in North Korea this year, he’ll find some trees and lights and might even hear a Christmas song or two. But he won’t encounter even a hint of what Christmas actually means — not under a regime that sees foreign religion a very real threat.

 
In Christmas message, Pope Francis laments children in war, poverty

Pope Francis urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today’s children, bemoaning how some must escape bombs or flee in migrant boats and how others are prevented from being born at all.

Christmas cards get holy touch with Bethlehem, N.H., postmark

Instead of mailing her Christmas cards from her local post office, Sherry Wareing drove 20 miles roundtrip to a small post office in a White Mountains town of about 2,500.

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