Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/December 25, 2004

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Proposal: Christmas

Therefore, it could be... Christmas is a traditional holiday in the Christian calendar which takes place on the twenty-fifth day of December and celebrates the birth of Jesus. According to the Christian gospels, Jesus was born to the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem, where Mary and her husband Joseph had travelled to register in the Roman census. His birth was said by his followers to fulfill the prophecies of Judaism that a messiah would come from the house of David. Christmas is also a secular holiday throughout much of the world, including countries with small Christian populations, such as Japan.