Orthodox Christians around the world have been celebrating Christmas by attending church services. While the majority of the Christian world celebrate Christmas Day on 25 December, for many of the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria — This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city.

Mary gave birth to Jesus in Bethlehem and laid him in a manger. There, according to the gospels, he was visited by kings and shepherds who had heard about his birth. Advent is the season leading ...

According to a series of articles in the Star Tribune begining in July 2018, mainline Christian churches are facing an unprecedented decline in both the number of churches in Minnesota and the ...

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

How the historic evangelical institution served a reeling Shiite community. The predominantly Shiite city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon once boasted the nation’s largest Christmas tree ...

Julia Maruca Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024 12:01 a.m. | Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024 12:01 a.m. On a blustery, snowy Saturday afternoon at Twin Lakes Park east of Greensburg, a little over a dozen people huddled ...

When Band Aid recorded a single to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia, the supergroup famously sang: "Do they know it's Christmas time at all?" The discovery confirms that Christianity ...

Christian community in Pakistan celebrated Christmas today [Wednesday] as elsewhere in the world. Addressing a special Christmas ceremony at Prime Minister House in Islamabad today, Prime Minister ...