Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...

My critique of Christmas cards definitely struck a nerve. I wrote about how I was disappointed at how many Christmas cards ...

Christmas is believed to have first been celebrated in 336 AD by the Romans, but it did not become a widespread Christian festival until the ninth century. It is held on December 25 each year to mark ...

In the last few decades, that knowledge has taken a back seat to the hustle and bustle of shopping, parties and Santa Claus. Even the "comfort and joy" heralded is more about general feelings of ...

For those who observe Orthodox Christmas, the celebration begins Wednesday. Following the Julian calendar, some Orthodox ...

Belgian authorities are mystified over a brazen theft over the weekend from a Christmas Nativity scene of an icon of infant Jesus Christ that had been widely scorned online. Snatched from his crib on ...

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s ...

As motorists driving past the Living Nativity at Waukegan’s Church of Joy paused for five minutes or more to view actors silently portraying the birth of Jesus, some felt they were emotionally ...