A recent Financial Times article noted that one of the most popular Christmas carols in history was written by “a ...

Instrumental and Traditional Christmas Songs for Ballet and Relaxation. Perfect Christmas Carols to create a Choreography for ...

Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday.

For the Ancient Greeks, music connected philosophy, medicine, and ethics, shaping both individual character and the common ...

Yuletide divination is a unique blend of ancient pagan rituals and Christian traditions. From January 6-7, our ancestors ...

For more than 60 years, members of St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Youngstown have gotten into their colorful ...

A much-loved Christmas story tells about the journey of the Magi—the three Wise Men who came seeking the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?” they ask. “For we ...

We all know the classic Christmas stories, generally; or at least we get the gist of them. We know ’Twas the Night Before Christmas and The Grinch, but here’s a couple interesting Christmas tales you ...

On the sixth day of December many Christians around the world observed the Feast Day of St. Nicholas. As Bishop of Myra in ancient Turkey, Nicholas was a kind and generous man in the third century who ...

Picture this: It's dusk on 24 December. A child presses her face to the window, scanning the darkening sky. The moment she spots the first star, she shouts—and a household of adults, who've been ...

Christians first celebrated Christmas as the birthday of the infant Jesus in ancient Rome on the 25th of December AD 336. Although this took place a very long time ago, the tradition of gift-giving is ...