Sullivan Daily Times, Volume 50, Number 255, Sullivan, Sullivan County, 24 December 1948 — Page 4

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CHICAGO,; Dec. 24. Tomorrow is Christmas,, but it will be just another day as far as, most of the people in- the world are concerned. Only an'' estimated 31 per cent of the world's population profess Christianity, leaving a billion and a half non-Christians who do not celebrate the birthday

of Jesus Christ. About 285,000,000 Mohammedans commemorate instead the birth of Mohammed on the twelfth day of the third lunar month on their lunar calendar and the birth of El-Hoseyn in the fourth month according to Encyclopaedia Britannica. The chief festivals of Mohammedanism, as listed by the reference work, are 'Eedes-Sag-heer, which last for three days, and 'Eed el-Kebeer, beginning on the tenth of Zu-l-Heggeh, the last month of the Mohammedm year, which goes on for three or four days. The Mohammedans, who make up thirteen per cent of the globe's population also keep holy the first ten days of Moharram, the first

month , of the year, particularly the tenth day,, called Yom Ashoora. The anniversary of the prophet's miraculous- ascension into heaven in the seventh month and one or two lesser anniversaries are also marked, the Britannica points out. Another substantial proportion of the world's people are Hindus, who comprise 11 per cent, and celebrate Holi in the spring and Durga-puja at the time of the autumnal equinox, a ten day festival in honor of the victory of the goddess Durga over the buffalo-headed demon Mahishasura.

This celebration ends after nine days of worship of Durga when the image of the ten armed goddess, holding a weapon in each hand, is cast into the water on the tenth day, known as Dasahara, as described in the Britannica. Nearly 165,000,000 Buddhists eight per cent of the world's population, observe the day when Buddha left his home, the versary of his birth and the day

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when he attained perfection and entered Nirvana.. Some Buddhist celebrate Trut, the festival of the close of the year, with visiting and play-going.. The new year is celebrated1 for ! three days, and other, holidays occur throughout the $ ear, Vjth presents made of cakes of new ri&e being exchanged on the last-flay of June, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Other large: segments of nonChristian reKgious groups lara made up of the Confucianists and Taoists of China, comprising 13 per cent of the world's population;

primitive, animist, fetish anl magi i cults, nine per cent; Hebrews, '

one per cent; Shintoists in Japan, one per cent; Sikhs in India, onefifth of one per cent; and Jains in India, one-twentieth of one per cent. The adherents of all other religious sects, including state religions, make up 12.75 per cent of the population of the world.

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