The Christmas season has been a time of joy for Christians for nearly two millennia. As many of the faithful will be unwrapping gifts and sipping eggnog on Sunday, it’s still important to find time to ...

A Ukrainian serviceman carries his daughter on his shoulders, while people gather around a Christmas tree in front of the St. Sophia Cathedral, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Dec. 6, 2023.

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 ...

JERUSALEM — Advent has crept in quietly this year in the Holy Land. It has been stripped away from the usual trappings of Christmas, which normally are impossible to resist either here in Jerusalem or ...

Peter Mihoč, bishop of the Lutheran Church of Slovakia’s eastern district, expected his Christmas sermon to resonate with the faithful watching on television and listening in the church. What he did ...

The news stung like a hornet against bare skin. For thirteen years, my wife and I celebrated Christmas with our two children on Christmas day. We considered it a sacred tradition — and thought they ...

Why does Santa Claus bring gifts each Christmas? Where does Jesus fit into the Christmas celebration today? In Germany, the Christ child appears as an angel at Christmas time to bring gifts to the ...