What’s open and closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas 2020 in the Lehigh Valley
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
Posted Dec 24, 2020
Many places will be closed Friday, Dec. 25, 2020 in celebration of the religious holiday and worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon.
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Christmas is both a religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon.
For two millennia, people worldwide have been observing it with a variety of traditions and practices, according to a history.com report. Christians celebrate the day as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, a spiritual leader whose teachings form the basis of their religion.
Pennsylvania is in a “precarious place” with the coronavirus, Gov. Tom Wolf last month began advising residents to stay home whenever possible during the holidays and moved forward with other measures to limit the spread of COVID-19. The governor, however, has not mandated residents stay-at-home as ordered during the March sh