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Patriarch John X’s Nativity Pastoral Letter (2018)
Fr. Geoff Harvey21 Dec 2018 - 12:00pm

Pastoral Letter of the Holy Nativity of Christ — 2018

By the Grace of God
John X
Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Antioch

To my Brothers, the Hierarchs and Shepherds of the Holy Church of Antioch,
Why Christmas is not Pagan
Fr. Geoff Harvey16 Dec 2018 - 9:00pm

An increasing number of Christians have come to believe that Christmas is derived from paganism. They’ve heard that the timing of Christmas may have been borrowed from Roman sun god worship. Or that Christmas trees come from German paganism.

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