Pilgrims, clergy come to Bethlehem for Christmas

Thousands of tourists, pilgrims and clergy converged on Bethlehem on Friday as the town of Jesus' birth prepared to celebrate Christmas Eve.

Boy Scout marching bands played in Manger Square, just outside the Church of the Nativity, which Christian tradition identifies as the site of Jesus' birth in a stable two millennia ago. Pilgrims lit candles inside, and Palestinian policemen deployed around the town to keep the peace.

"This is where Jesus Christ was born and walked the earth. So I just want to walk the same earth," said Mary Healy, a tourist from Independence, Missouri, who said she was in Bethlehem for the fourth time.

The Roman Catholic Church's top clergyman in the Holy Land arrived in Bethlehem in a traditional procession from Jerusalem just past midday. Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal was to celebrate Midnight Mass later at the church, the peak of the holiday's events in the town.

As he entered Bethlehem, Twal expressed his traditional wishes for "peace, love and unity among us."

But on an unseasonably warm winter day, when temperatures approached 70 degrees Fahrenheit (20 degrees Celsius), he added another wish to his list, "which is to ask God to send us rain and winter besides peace and justice and dignity for all."

The normally rainy autumn and winter season in the Holy Land has been warm and dry — raising fears that the water shortage plaguing the parched region could worsen next year.

The Kardashians Celebrate Christmas Eve

It’s no secret the Kardashians love to have a good time and we have the pics to prove it! Khloe Kardashian put up photos from her mom’s Christmas eve parties through the years and everyone looks so happy and festive, we wish we were invited!

“Every year my mom hosts a huge Christmas Eve party and all of our family and friends attend — it’s one of my favorite holiday traditions,” Khloe, 26, wrote on her blog Dec. 23.

Shahrukh’ Night in Bangladesh

December 9, 2010 Bollywood super star shahrukh khan Come in Bangladesh! Bangladeshi event management group Anter shobiz arran

Bollywood King

ge this shahrukh’s night. Chairman of this group Sopon Choudhuri says “there is everything ok that Shahrukh is arrive Dhaka in 9 December 2010 and 10 December is held this live show in a stadium and the next day, 11 December 2010, Shahrukh and her team will leave Dhaka. In this program, LCD projector, photo and King Khan Party is also held. With Shahrukh, many Bollywood super stars will also come. Bangladeshi people are waiting for Shaharukh! They are jolly celebrate this event and wants to go back home with some memorable topic.

Christmas Carols

Christmas carols are sung throughout the Christmas festive season all the way up to the New Year celebrations. Christmas carols relate to Jesus, the winter season, the festivities and the like. The hymns bring in a certain emotion in one when sung on ones own or in choir. The melody tends to fill ones spirit with great happiness and you could catch yourself smiling on your own at times simply listening or humming the tune!

Christmas carols heighten the flavour of the winters and somewhat garnish the festivities. No wonder we all await the seasons greetings and celebrations very eagerly.

It is difficult to segregate the best Christmas carols in particular. There are thousands of carols and hymns and somehow each one of them happen to be some or the other ones’ favourite. At the same time we could simply set aside the carols that are based on Christmas episodes including the birth of Jesus. The following episodes would be a keyhole to the huge rack of carols known to mankind:

    * The Star of Bethlehem
    * The journey and adoration of the Magi
    * The annunciation

Another collection of carols that could be grouped as the best Christmas carols would be those that are composed for the kids.

    * All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth
    * I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
    * I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
    * Nuttin’ For Christmas
    * The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late)
    * Monster’s Holiday
    * You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch
    * Snoopy’s Christmas

A number of artists in their successful music careers have composed and sung a number of Christmas carols. Few tunes have been immortalized by them and they are more like Christmas anthems…remember ‘jingle bells’.
One of many such famed artists would be Jim Reeves. I know you are remembering your personal favourite now!

Retail chains today have redefined the concept of selling or displaying any music item. Are you wondering what music items could possibly mean? I’ll help you. With the advent of technology music today is not just confined to a black reel bound on two circular nodes.

Music today is in the air and you can listen to whatever you wish anywhere anytime. Thanks to the creation of the Compact Disc, ipod, walkman, MP3 players and so on.

If you are looking for free Christmas Carol music then you know which window to click. The fun part is; the internet today provides you with all the lyrics, the guitar and piano chords along with ideas in terms of harmonizing a song in a choir. Can you believe it?  Check with Google and Wikipedia!

For the other side of the world that is not much into technology…books could be your wonderland. There are umpteen numbers of books on Christmas carols and some of them have the notations printed alongside. So you might as well have your own collection of free Christmas carol music.

So make sure you have your own hymn book this year…just another feather on your Christmas hat!!