US Ethnic Communities Celebrate Christmas

Christmas is a highlight for many immigrant communities in the United States, who bring colorful traditions from their countries of origin.   For Hispanics, the nine-day celebration of Las Posadas reenacts the search by Mary and Joseph for a place to lodge as Mary prepared to give birth to baby Jesus. People in costume join the nightly procession along Olvera Street, the city's Hispanic center.  Arturo Najera came to the historic neighborhood with his wife, Rosario, and...

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