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In Busong Village, Christmas involves families returning to their villages, sharing gifts, extensive feasting, and decorating homes and churches with local flora. A unique tradition involves boys decorating canoes and lighting bonfires on hilltops, visible to neighboring villages. On Christmas Day, these canoes are brought into the village for celebrations featuring dancing and singing. In Mariant, located in the Highlands, children prepare torches from dried pit-pit tied with vines for nighttime processions. Villagers traverse bush tracks carrying these torches to reach the church atop a hill for midnight mass. Despite the cold outside, the church is filled with people, illuminated by candles that create a starry effect. The scene depicts a nativity setting with Mary, Joseph, shepherds, and baby Jesus, accompanied by singing and thanksgiving, highlighting the spiritual core of the celebration.","22-Christmas in PNG  \nEnglish  \n1  \nChristmas in Papua New Guinea  \nChristmas is a time for family and church. We decorate our homes and church with plants and flowers.  \n2  \nFamilies go home to their village. Children are excited to see their bubus. Families share gifts. Thereis lots of food.  \n3  \nWe go to church to celebrate the birth of Jesus. We sing and pray.  \n4  \nChristmas in Busong Village, Morobe  \nBusong Village is a small village on the coast. The only way to get there is by boat. At Christmas time the boys decorate canoes. The boys also make bonfires on top of the hill. When the bonfires are lit, people from other villages can see them.  \n5  \nOn Christmas Day, the canoes are pulled into the village. The people dance and sing to celebrate Christmas.  \n6  \nChristmas at Mariant, Enga Province  \nMariant Church is in the Highlands.  \nAt Christmas time the children gather dried pit-pit.  \nThey tie the bundles of pit-pit with vines.  \nThey use them as torches.  \n7  \nThe church is on top of a hill. On the night before Christmas, villagers walk on bush tracks to the church.  \nThey carry pit-pit torches.  \n8  \nPeople are excited.  \nThey talk and laugh. The children go to sleep in small huts.  \nThen the bell rings and it is time for midnight mass.  \n9  \nIt is cold outside but inside the church it is warm.  \nThe church is full of people. They light candles.  \nThe candles look like stars. There is a manger.  \nMary and Joseph watch the shepherds worship baby Jesus. 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