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==Other types== <!-- [[File:Salvatorian Seminary Catholic Christmas Seal.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.8|A Salvatorian Seminary Catholic charity seal of 1920]] --> Many other seals to raise funding for charitable efforts were issued during Christmas season, often with Christmas themes, by religious organizations, civic and fraternal societies, patriotic organizations, etc. Since they were not issued to fight tuberculosis specifically they lack the double barred [[Cross of Lorraine]], the international symbol for the fight against tuberculosis, which was proposed and established in 1902 at the International Conference on Tuberculosis in Berlin Germany, and strictly speaking do not qualify as what is commonly known as Christmas seals. {| style="margin:auto" | [[File:Salvation Seminary Christmas Seals.jpg|thumb|upright=2.8|{{center|Selection of Salvatorian Seminary Catholic charity seals of 1920}}]] |} Between 1937 and 1943 the [[National Socialist Workers' Party of Denmark|Danish Nazi Party (DNSAP)]] issued a variety of seals featuring the [[Nazi]] [[swastika]].<ref>[[#jay|Jay Smith & Associates]]</ref>> These scarce seals contain Christmas themes like [[holly]], but there is no indication on these seals that connect them to the fight against tuberculosis, and for this reason, they are not listed in [[Green's Catalog]].<ref name="denune1"/> Authorized by the Vatican, The [[Holy Childhood Association]] Program was founded in 1843 to be of service to schools and religious education programs. The Association distributes educational and fund-raising programs to school and religious education programs throughout the United States. To help bring recognition and raise funding for the program.the Holy Childhood foundation issues their own type of Christmas seal for sale at various Catholic Churches and other institutions.<ref>[[#holy|Association of the Holy Childhood]]</ref> {| style="margin:auto" | [[File:Holy Childhood Christmas Seals.jpg|thumb|upright=2.8|{{center|Selection of ''Holy Childhood'' Charity Christmas seals}}]] |} History has shown that most dictatorial regimes suspend Christmas seals from being issued. This happened in Korea under the Japanese occupation, China under the communists, and Argentina under [[Eva Peron]].{{citation needed|date=July 2012}}
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