In our Catholic tradition, the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord is celebrated ... This is called the Christmas Octave, and the Church recognizes that the days of the octave repeat the ...

I couldn't understand all the lyrics — the Spanish was centuries old, and my family lost our Indigenous language long ago.

Christians gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem ... Pope Francis marked Christmas Eve with a special ceremony launching Jubilee 2025, a year of Catholic celebrations ...

ALONE among national congregations in the Catholic Church, the Filipino faithful are allowed two celebrations related to ...

The octave of Christmas begins on the feast of the Nativity of the Lord and concludes ... In the Latin rite of the Catholic Church, Epiphany celebrates the revelation that Jesus was the Son ...

January 7 marks an alternate Christmas tradition, namely the Orthodox Christmas, and a very strong one at that ...

The iconic St Peter’s Catholic Church in Padungan that had social media abuzz with excitement over its impending opening ...

the Church of St. Catherine — the Latin part of the Basilica of the Nativity — was filled with the faithful. At the singing of the Gloria and the ringing of the Christmas bells, the statue of ...

For millions of Orthodox believers, this date remains a sacred time to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, regardless of when other Christian sects.

The 266th head of the Catholic Church called for peace in the Middle East—a routine request from his predecessors. But Pope ...

Our final stop was a church ... a Nativity scene, but the difference here in Ecuador is that many more items are added — people, houses, streams, and animals of all kinds. One Christmas, I ...

Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Emeritus at Harvard Law School, and the author most recently of War Against the Jews: How to End Hamas Barbarism. He is the Jack Roth ...