{"id":161462,"date":"2015-12-23T19:05:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/how-to-say-merry-christmas-in-six-african-languages\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T22:44:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T22:44:40","slug":"how-to-say-merry-christmas-in-six-african-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.one.org\/us\/stories\/how-to-say-merry-christmas-in-six-african-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"How to say &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; in SIX African languages!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know &ldquo;Feliz Navidad&rdquo; and &ldquo;Joyeux No&euml;l&rdquo;&hellip; but can you say &ldquo;Merry Christmas&rdquo; in these African languages?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-image wp-image-128112\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23121932\/XMAS-Graphics-Kirundi-01-2-640x639.jpg\" alt=\"XMAS Graphics - Tonga\" width=\"593\" height=\"593\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-image wp-image-128113\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23121948\/XMAS-Graphics-Ndebele-01-2-640x639.jpg\" alt=\"Devices\" width=\"593\" height=\"593\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-image wp-image-128114\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23121959\/XMAS-Graphics-Shona-01-2-640x639.jpg\" alt=\"Devices\" width=\"593\" height=\"593\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-image wp-image-128115\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23122011\/XMAS-Graphics-Swahili-01-2-640x639.jpg\" alt=\"Devices\" width=\"593\" height=\"593\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-image wp-image-128116\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23122024\/XMAS-Graphics-Tonga-01-2-640x639.jpg\" alt=\"XMAS Graphics - Tonga\" width=\"593\" height=\"593\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-post-image wp-image-128123\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.one.org\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/23134317\/XMAS-Graphics-Xhosa-01-2-640x639.jpg\" alt=\"Devices\" width=\"593\" height=\"593\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Happy holidays from ONE!&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/one.org\/us\/take-action\/dashboard\/?source=blog\">Become a member<\/a> in 2017, and join us in the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease!<\/h2>\n<div class=\"buffer\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know &#8220;Feliz Navidad&#8221; and &#8220;Joyeux No\u00ebl&#8221;&#8230; but can you say &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; in these African languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":162334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"topic":[52,399],"contributor":[75],"one_content_audience":[],"one_content_type":[],"one_content_tone":[],"class_list":["post-161462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","topic-culture","topic-faith","contributor-samantha-urban"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to say &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; in SIX African languages! 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