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STORY: Hundreds of Catholic followers and the plain curious flocked to a traditional evening mass on Christmas Eve on Saturday (December 24) at Beijing's biggest Cathedral.
China and the Vatican severed ties more than 50 years ago and only around 25 million people in the world's most populous nation are Christians.
Christianity spread for centuries in China before the Communists took power in 1949, closing churches and throwing out foreign missionaries.
In the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, many churches were burned and relics smashed.
