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December 25, 2029

Christmas leads today's complete edition for Fiji.

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Tuesday, December 25, 2029

Official observances, world days, local context, and everyday celebrations for people who need something worth reading, sharing, or talking about today.

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Christmas — World Calendar Day
World Calendar Day

Christmas

The Liberian Christmas is a church day, a family day, and a food day. The church service is at midnight on the 24th, and the singing is in English and the local languages. The Christmas meal includes jollof rice, fried chicken, cassava leaf, potato greens, and sweet potato pie. The children receive gifts, usually clothes and shoes, and the adults exchange visits. The Christmas is not about presents. It is about presence, and the tradition is to visit every relative you have on Christmas Day. The streets of Monrovia are decorated with lights, the churches are full, and the sound of Christmas carols mixes with the sound of Liberian gospel music.

Navidad — World Calendar Day
World Calendar Day

Navidad

National holiday. The day after Nochebuena when everyone eats leftovers and recovers. Children play with toys, adults sleep, and the house smells like picana for three more days. This is the quietest day in Bolivia and it is earned.

Noel — World Calendar Day
World Calendar Day

Noel

National holiday. Catholic families attend morning mass, Muslim families visit neighbors, and everyone eats. The riz gras is extra rich, the chicken is extra big, and the children are extra happy. Burkina celebrates together regardless of faith because a holiday is a holiday and food is food.

Na Siga Ni Sucu Ni Jioji — World Calendar Day
Regional/Cultural Day

Na Siga Ni Sucu Ni Jioji

National holiday. Fijian Christmas starts with church, a long, loud, joyful service with singing that can be heard in the next village. Then the lovo is opened. Then the grog bowl begins. Then the children run wild. Then the adults sit in the shade. Then the Christmas cake is cut, a heavy fruit cake drenched in rum that every Fijian family has. The day is church, food, family, grog, and the slow drift into the best nap of the year.