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Not yet Christmas for Ethiopians!

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While many Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on 25th December, Coptic or Orthodox Christians will hold their celebrations on 7 January next year.

Ethiopia is one of the few countries in the world where Christmas is commemorated at a different time. But what do Ethiopians do when the rest of the world is on holiday at this time?

CCTV’s Girum Chala went around Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa to find out and has sent this report.

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