A child watches as a Greek Orthodox priest celebrates Christmas Mass at the Orthodox Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City on Jan. 7.

A Palestinian Greek Orthodox boy attends Christmas services at the Saint Porfirios church in Gaza City on Jan. 7.

A Macedonian Orthodox believer holds burning candles during the Christmas Mass in Skopje, Macedonia, on Jan. 7.

Believers hold burning candles during the Christmas Mass at the central Orthodox church, St. Kliment, in Skopje, Macedonia, on Jan. 7.

A Russian Orthodox believer lights candles during a Christmas Mass in a church in Grozny, Chechen Republic, Russia, late Sunday, Jan. 6, 2013.

People watch a ceremonial burning of dried oak branches for the Orthodox Christmas Eve in front of St. Sava temple in Belgrade, Serbia, on Jan. 6.

Tom Fraser-Dillon tries out the new snare drum his son Mack just received as a Christmas present.

Kim and Tom, interrupted from last minute gift wrapping, try to coax Gia off the table.

Brian Kolb, left, and Alexa, Kim and Mack Fraser-Dillon gather for a pizza delivery dinner on Christmas Eve.

Tom plays with Gia, left, and Otis.

The Fraser-Dillon house is the only inhabited house in their neighborhood on Christmas Eve.

Volunteers take phone calls from children asking where Santa is and when he will deliver presents to their house during the annual NORAD Tracks Santa Operation, at the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Dec. 24.

Members of a Laughter Yoga club practice laughter yoga in Ly Thai To Park in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Dec. 23. About 200 members of the club wearing Santa Claus costumes gathered at the park to celebrate the upcoming Christmas and New Year. Laughter yoga is a physical exercise that has recently been imported to Vietnam.

A Balinese man dressed as Santa Claus takes advantage of the good sea conditions as he goes surfing off a beach in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia, on Dec. 22.

People dressed as Santa Claus row boats on the Venice canal on Dec. 22.

"Sandy Claus" Michael Sciaraffo makes a toy delivery to a home in the Bell Harbor neighborhood of New York on Dec. 18, 2012. Using Facebook, Sciaraffo started a charitable enterprise to collect and personally deliver toys to children affected by Superstorm Sandy.

Sciaraffo, a political consultant who has worked for Hillary Clinton and City Hall, sits at his workstation in Brooklyn as he takes a phone request for a toy on Dec. 18, 2012.

Elizabeth Sampol holds her daughter, Ella, 14 months, as she receives a toy from Michael Sciaraffo in the Belle Harbor section of Queens on Dec. 18, 2012.

Ella Sampol looks at her present as her mother Elizabeth and Michael Sciaraffo look on, on Dec. 18, 2012.

Christmas decorations are displayed on the lawn of a house in Pasadena, California, December 17, 2012.

A worker puts freshly-painted traditional Christmas toy figures on a tray for drying at Richard Glaesser factory in Seiffen, Germany, on Nov. 28.

An incense smoker at the at the Richard Glaesser factory in Seiffen, Germany, on Nov. 28.

Painted heads of incense smokers at the Glaesser factory in Seifen.

A worker fashions a "Spanbaum," a carved wooden tree, at the Glaesser factory in Seifen.

A worker fashions a traditional wooden Christmas pyramid at the Glaesser factory in Seifen. The so-called pyramid, which rotates with the aid of hot air from a burning candle, is a popular part of the Christmas tradition in Germany.