CHRISTMAS is often termed a "holy day" or a "festival" or festive day. The holy day is the religious facet of Christmas, and the 'festive' is its secular ...

The New Year has been the most important family holiday in Russia since the Soviet era, when authorities promoted it as a ...

And there isn't a Jesus in the secular Christmas. But really I don't think there's a lot of difference between a secular and Christian Christmas. Secular Christmas has consumerism and Santa. Christian ...

As the clocks strike midnight, we Russian-speaking Israelis raise glasses of champagne and bite on a cracker smeared with ...

The video captured a gathering of the Go Sing Choir — a secular, open pop choir based in Munich, Germany. A film crew recorded the choir singing "Like a Prayer" on Dec.

A video authentically shows people inside a church singing Madonna's "Like a Prayer" around Christmastime.

King Henry appointed Thomas a Becket as archbishop of Canterbury, but Thomas switched his allegiance from king to God and ...

Notre Dame is arguably the most important part of the City of Light In the year before the 2019 fire, it was the most-visited ...

A woman has been charged with murder after a man died at a house in a Staffordshire village on Christmas Day. Kirsty Carless, ...

A deluge of false or misleading information about Syria has flooded social media. Local and international actors are exploiting pre-existing divisions to advance their own aims, experts say.

Experts have warned of activities that are popular on a hangover, but could raise the risk of potentially deadly heart problems.