As many are aware, it's still Christmas. The Christmas season only begins on Christmas. But when does it end? If you go by the famous phrase "the twelve days...
Ninth Annual "International Carols in a Square" Attracts 2,000 TORREVIEJA'S Inmaculada Church was the centre point for this year's Christmas Carol Service...
HARTFORD, Connecticut, U.S. — Thousands of students in Connecticut will have a long weekend because communities with large Hispanic populations cancelled...
MEXICO CITY - According to a press release from City Hall, the rosca de reyes ("king cake"), a tradition observed in Mexican homes, measured 740 meters [2427...
It's interesting that public schools are giving more attention to this special day than the churches in the U.S. who just give it a slight nod on a Sunday....
This sounds like a wonderful event. I know a church organist/choir director who plans a carol sing during the Christmas season next year -- NOT during Advent....
So true. Speaking for the Catholic Church in the U.S., I'm all for restoring the observance of the Epiphany to its traditional (and "seasonally-correct")...
[Poster's note: Why the Magi were riding on horses instead of camels during today's traditional Epiphany celebration in the southern Puerto Rican town of Juana...
The Russian news channel Russia Today is broadcasting live pictures of the midnight mass service from Moscow as the Orthodox Christian faith celebrates it's...
CAIRO — Egypt's Christians on Saturday celebrated their first Christmas since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, amid tight security and a display of...
FERGUS FALLS, Minn. — The reward has been increased to $250 for a goat that fled a Christmas nativity scene in Fergus Falls. The goat, Curly, was supposed to...
MAYFIELD, Pennsylvania --- A bit of old Russia came to life Sunday when children from St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral whirled, twirled, kicked...
BETHLEHEM -- Armenian Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas today, receiving the Armenian patriarch in Bethlehem. Worshipers gathered at Manger Square at 9...
Curly the fugitive Angora goat who fled a Nativity scene and defied capture is now safe at home. She was found Wednesday afternoon near Fergus Falls among her...
MAYFIELD, Pennsylvania -- For those who follow the Gregorian calendar, the Christmas celebration was pretty much over by the first week of January. For those...
In 1859, Rev. John Freeman Young published a 16-page pamphlet titled "Carols For Christmas Tide." The first of the seven carols in this pamphlet was his...
Just a note to let you know about five "new-to-me" English-language translations of "Stille Nacht." This brings the number of English translations at my web...
SYDNEY, Australia --- Once accused as the Christmas Grinch, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has been struck with the festive spirit, with the council voting...
A program that provides free Christmas trees to military families is being honored at the White House on April 11 as a finalist in the Joining Forces Community...
New York-based composer and Peabody Institute faculty member Kevin Puts has won the Pulitizer Prize for music with Silent Night, his first opera. The work...
By Kenneth Jones 23 Apr 2012 A Civil War Christmas, written by Paula Vogel and directed by Tina Landau, will make its New York City premiere in the 2012-13...
Tickets are now on sale for the Nov. 9 - Dec. 30 engagement of the 2012 production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. The...
The Colorado blue spruce passed away "due to complications resulting from transplant shock" just 14 months after it was planted in the Ellipse field outside...
Roanoke, Virginia is called "the star city of the South," thanks to an electrified star erected on top of Mill Mountain for Christmas, 1949. The star continues...
by Karen Holt, Historic Americans Examiner When the sun rose on December 1, 1776, morale in the Continental Army was so low, it could have walked under a...
The trials the Continental Army faced in their march to Trenton enhanced the outcome for the Americans because it served to conceal them from the British....
The Glee actor was part of an all-star line-up performing a Christmas concert in 2010, and the U.S. leader, his wife Michelle and their two daughters were...
"A Christmas Story, The Musical!", which played a five-city U.S. tour last year, is heading to Broadway for the holiday season, according to an Equity casting...
