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...
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rrstar96
Jan 5, 2012 6:03 pm
HARTFORD, Connecticut, U.S. — Thousands of students in Connecticut will have a long weekend because communities with large Hispanic populations cancelled...
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rrstar96
Jan 5, 2012 6:48 pm
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jan 5, 2012 11:55 pm
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....
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jan 5, 2012 11:55 pm
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....
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rrstar96
Jan 6, 2012 1:10 am
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")...
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rrstar96
Jan 6, 2012 4:22 pm
[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...
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rrstar96
Jan 7, 2012 11:41 pm
Best wishes to our fellow Christmas International members who adhere to the Orthodox faith and are celebrating Christmas today....
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Harry Hayfield
welshliberal...
Jan 9, 2012 4:18 am
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jan 9, 2012 4:27 am
CAIRO — Egypt's Christians on Saturday celebrated their first Christmas since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, amid tight security and a display of...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jan 16, 2012 4:07 pm
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jan 17, 2012 3:22 am
MAYFIELD, Pennsylvania --- A bit of old Russia came to life Sunday when children from St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral whirled, twirled, kicked...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jan 19, 2012 2:46 am
BETHLEHEM -- Armenian Orthodox Christians celebrated Christmas today, receiving the Armenian patriarch in Bethlehem. Worshipers gathered at Manger Square at 9...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jan 19, 2012 2:58 pm
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jan 19, 2012 7:15 pm
MAYFIELD, Pennsylvania -- For those who follow the Gregorian calendar, the Christmas celebration was pretty much over by the first week of January. For those...
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doug97309
Mar 27, 2012 2:58 pm
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...
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doug97309
Mar 31, 2012 2:32 pm
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Apr 2, 2012 3:49 am
Thanks for keeping us current on "Stille Nacht", Doug. We're four years from the Bicentennial of the original lyrics. Bill...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Apr 3, 2012 5:16 am
SYDNEY, Australia --- Once accused as the Christmas Grinch, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has been struck with the festive spirit, with the council voting...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Apr 8, 2012 9:16 pm
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Apr 17, 2012 4:04 am
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Apr 24, 2012 12:06 am
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
May 4, 2012 11:39 pm
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
May 5, 2012 2:59 am
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
May 8, 2012 12:23 am
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
May 16, 2012 2:52 am
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
May 16, 2012 2:56 am
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....
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
May 23, 2012 3:33 am
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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
May 26, 2012 2:38 am
"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...
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christmashistorian
christmashis...
Jun 1, 2012 4:23 am
READING, Pennsylvania --- Reading and its struggles with poverty will be the Christmas story this year on CBS. The network has asked Odyssey Networks, a...
