Week in Photos: December 22-December 28, 2006

News photos for December 22-December 28, 2006
News photos for December 22-December 28, 2006
News photos for December 22-December 28, 2006
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December 24, 2006

Orissa, India

Students and artists gathered on Christmas Eve on India's Puri beach to craft a 100-foot-long (30-meter-long) Santa Claus sand sculpture.

India's population is primarily Hindu (about 80 percent), followed by Muslim (roughly 16 percent). But Christianity is India's third largest religion, with Christians making up about 3 percent of the country's billion people.

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—Photograph by Biswaranjan Rout/AP
 

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