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I hope this is okay to post.. Christmas in the Philippines! In my country, people love Christmas so much the Christmas season starts on September 1. 😁 As a tropical country, we don't get snow but December is rainy so it can be a little cold (by our standards 24 deg C is cold 🤣🤣) We have "Misa de Gallo" which starts on Dec 16. People go to church at dawn to hear the mass for 9 days until Dec 25. They say your wishes will come true if you complete the 9 days of prayer. We celebrate on thr n

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Misa de Gallo; Philippines; begins December 9; Also called Simbang Gabi. Denotes the beginning of the Christmas season in Catholic parts of the Philippines; each day begins with church bells breaking the night silence to call people to dawn Mass; the Misa de Gallo period concludes with the midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.

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How Is Christmas Like In The Philippines? Backgrounder The Philippines is the largest predominantly Asian Christian Nation. And with a population of 90 Million and growing, that is large, especially for a relatively tiny country with a combined...

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Filipinos around the world hold one holiday symbol above the rest: the parol, a traditional ornamental lantern that adorns streets, homes and buildings in the Philippines. This is how to build your own.

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Chinese New Year has been celebrated in the Philippines for a long time since ethnic Chinese comprise about 1.5% of the population. It has become an official holiday and a designated day off, elevating the scale and significance of the celebrations. Manila's Chinatown, Binondo, which is already bust

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The "parol" is the Filipino Christmas star, symbolizing the one that shone over Bethlehem about 2000 years ago. Simple ones are made of bamboo and plastic, with a single incandescent bulb inside. The more elaborate parols like this are multi-colored with synchronized blinking lights made of various materials like native capiz shells soldered together.

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With the availability of cheap Chinese Christmas decorations at chinese stores with names that are numbers like 668 or 886 or 68.... the tradition of making locally made christmas decors is fast vanishing. There are only a few places where people continue to make these intricate Filipino christmas lanterns- made of capiz shells.

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