Topic: Countries that doesnot celebrate Christmas (Read 149 times)

While Christmas is widely celebrated in many countries around the world, there are several countries where it is not a major holiday or not celebrated at all due to cultural, religious, or historical reasons.
Some examples are here.

Saudi Arabia: As an Islamic country, Christmas is not recognized or celebrated on a national level in Saudi Arabia. The dominant religion in the country is Islam, and the celebration of non-Islamic holidays is not common.

North Korea: Christmas is not officially recognized or celebrated in North Korea. The country's primary focus is on the personality cult of its leaders and the celebration of national holidays.

Bhutan: Bhutan, a predominantly Buddhist country, does not typically celebrate Christmas as a national holiday. Buddhism is the state religion, and the main religious festivals in Bhutan are related to Buddhism.

Japan: While Christmas is recognized and celebrated to some extent in Japan, it is not a public holiday. The celebration of Christmas in Japan is more of a cultural and commercial event, with decorations, gift-giving, and festive displays.

China: Christmas is not a public holiday in China, where the dominant religion is Buddhism and traditional Chinese festivals hold more significance. However, in major cities and tourist areas, Christmas has gained popularity among young people, and some commercial establishments may decorate and celebrate the holiday.

Iran: Christmas is not widely celebrated in Iran, as the majority of the population follows Islam. However, some Christian communities in Iran do observe Christmas, particularly in Armenian and Assyrian communities.

It's important to note that even in countries where Christmas is not widely celebrated, there may still be small communities or expatriate populations that observe the holiday in their own way. Additionally, cultural exchange and globalization have led to the spread of Christmas celebrations to varying degrees in some countries, even if it is not a traditional holiday for them.

That is because christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ and it is mainly celebrated by people from the same religion that is catholic over the years though it is seen more of as a holiday that everyone can celebrate despite one’s religion because aside from religion practices people have associated Christmas with various stories or cultures like santa claus

You have mentioned countries that do not celebrate Christmas well let me tell you one country that celebrates it the longest the Philippines, having most of its population catholic christmas is really a big event for them but this country is said to celebrate Christmas starting from September they do not even care to celebrate halloween anymore because they all anticipate Christmas so much

Christmas Day is a very important day for Christians. Christmas is celebrated on December 25 in almost every country in the world. Many countries around the world do not celebrate Christmas but we should respect every religion. Islamic countries and Muslim people living there are against celebrating Christian festivals. China does not celebrate Christmas in this country either. China does not believe in any religion so Christmas is not celebrated here. In China Christmas is celebrated as a normal working day.

Not all are Islam mate but indeed that almost majority of countries are from Islam countries and yeah its sad for others who live from those countries but not Member of Islam/religion .

but lets be thankful for being celebrated and that is what we must be caring more , and respect those who are not.

lol China and North Korea aren't Islam countries but they also not celebrating Christmas instead they are communist countries that prevented their people to have their own will in celebrating this festive season.

But goodness that there are chinese and north korean that lives in other countries that do celebrate this Yuletide season so still they cannot prevent all of their people from celebrating.

For us it is sad that they don't have Christmas Celebration as they are not Christians and
that must not be an issue because they have their own Celebration for their own God so it may not be
in December but for sure this is almost or more than enjoyable event for them as they celebrate so lets
be happy for them as how they are happy for us now.

I think that in this off topic like it is, you can talk about everything, so, those countries that does not celebrate Christmas are Islam countries, like the religion that rules the countrie is the Islam, and Muslim people don't celebrate it because there religion didn't say to do so, they have there own holly days and Christmas doesn't have a place in.

I've got some friends in some of those countries that you've mentioned but definitely not with North Korea. But you know what, even though the entire nation based on their religion and belief doesn't celebrate Christmas.

You can count on it that some people that are actually into those lands are celebrating it quietly and despite that, they're happy that they are still able to celebrate even with that circumstances.

So, if a country doesn't celebrate it wholly is because of their culture, religion/beliefs.

Before I made this post here I have seen many Christmas celebrations post that some people posted here previously, so if making a post of this kind here is against meta board a moderator have to move the post to the appropriate place, but you guys are lamenting as if meta is not the appropriate place to post Christmas celebrations post, this post is opposite side of Christmas celebrations because some countries doesn't  celebrate Christmas

Checking through your profile to see how long you have been in this forum and the amount of merit you have earned so far, I think you should have familiar yourself with the right board to post in and not to post in. Meta board mainly has to do with the posts that concern the forum itself such as change of rules, complain, observations and something similar to such.

On that note, it's necessary to move your topic from here to off topic discussion https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=9.0 I believe you know how to move a topic right? Well, incase you don't know, scroll down to left side bottom and you'll see move topic link and lock topic. Click on the move topic link and move it to appropriate board which I think should be off topic. Do it yourself and free mods from the unnecessary stress.

By the way, I read from the news recently before the Christmas that Bethlehem banned Christmas celebration. I don't know how authentic such information is but if it is true, then nothing is surprising here.

Why in meta ??

Do you that when you are born in environment that is being fenced and their is no supermarket and theirs no school or pitch were you can play a football you will not know that football exists or rather know that supermarket also exists, so I was wondering that Christmas is something every countries celebrate, today I asked myself that let me make inquiry and know if Christmas is being celebrated across all the country, during my research in Google this is the list of countries that doesn't participate and children don't know what's Christmas celebrations, it's good to ask questions sometimes so that you will know what you dont know of countries that celebrate Christmas Source

1.Afghanistan

2.China

3.Tunisia

4.North Korea

5.Saudi Arabia

6.Algeria

7.Bhutan

8.Libya

9.Brunei

10.Mauritania

11.Mongolia

12.Pakistan

13.Tajikistan

14.Turkmenistan

15.Morocco

16.Qatar

17.Somalia

18.Uzbekistan

19.Yemen