Russian Orthodox communities across the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta celebrate Slaviq — the celebration of the birth of Christ ...

One-year-old Everleigh Mogish remained alert throughout her first Christmas Eve service Monday in St. Michael the Archangel ...

Therefore, the New Year's Eve ban of Santa Claus (and at the same time the ‘Jingle Bells’ Christmas song) surprised few ...

Attendees sang, prayed and took Communion for the final time in their church. Kenyon delivered his last sermon there, until ...

Abraham Lincoln, assassinated in 1865, was the first. A national funeral service is to be held on Thursday at the National Cathedral, an Episcopal church in the nation’s capital which also hosted ...

A national funeral service is to be held on Thursday at the National Cathedral, an Episcopal church in the nation’s capital which also hosted state funerals for former presidents Dwight D.

HOPES that bells in a Herefordshire church could be heard ringing again ... the rare bells need refurbishment to be rung to celebrate Sunday services and special occasions.

A winding four-hour drive from Athens, it enjoys near total silence, periodically broken by church bells and howling dogs. Elderly residents measure the village’s chances of survival by the ...

Mourners are to begin paying their respects to Jimmy Carter on Saturday, kicking off a carefully choreographed six-day farewell for America's longest-lived president. Flags have been flying at ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women have been largely exempt from army service since the establishment of Israel in 1948, while secular and traditional Jewish men and women must serve for a ...

Israel’s former defence minister has resigned from the country’s parliament over the government’s intention to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from army service. Yoav Gallant, a senior member of ...

The church pews where Francisca Lino and her family had sat for services every Sunday are now empty. Though she once sought sanctuary in the Chicago church to avoid deportation, this time “not ...