Professor Chris Greenough of Social Sciences at Edge Hill University says that these Christmas story characters actually don't appear in the Bible. 'Some of best-known parts of the Christmas story ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Christmas is a Christian holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. But several important Christmas traditions have nothing to do with Jesus. These are the five ...

Church leaders in Jerusalem and the Bethlehem city council took the decision last month to forego “any unnecessarily festive” Christmas celebrations in solidarity with Gazans. The Latin ...

All the attributes of the Christmas holiday were associated with the Christian religion. The Christmas tree was decorated with figurines of angels, shepherds, bells, and so on. The stars ...

other Orthodox Christian churches in the region were getting ready for a different holiday — Orthodox Christmas, which falls Jan. 7. Because some Orthodox church jurisdictions follow the “old ...

Christmas is a Christian holy day that marks the birth of Jesus, who Christians believe to be the Son of God. When Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem the local inn was full with people returning ...