Coptic & Eastern Orthodox Christian: Christmas

The Christmas season is a much anticipated period of the year all around the world. It is an important time and means many different things to everyone. It is a time to reconnect with family and loved ones, a time of giving and receiving gifts and love, a time to relax and take a break from all the rigors of the previous months, and more importantly, a time Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. In the Bible’s account of the birth of Jesus, it does not state explicitly on which date He was born. The celebration of Christmas on December 25 is a conception by Sextus Julius Africanus, a Christian historian in 221 A.D. The date was set using the Julian calendar, which was later updated to the Gregorian calendar.

Orthodox Christmas day occurs every January 7 because the Orthodox Church still chooses to celebrate the birth of Jesus…