The New Year on the Islamic calendar, or Hijri, announces the year as 1441, which began on the first evening of the month of Muharram, or December 8, 2014, on the Christian Gregorian calendar.

“Happy Holidays,” a greeting that grew to encompass both Christmas and the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, actually shows the power of Christianity to flatten the culture of minority religious faiths.

Some Christian leaders and conservative commentators have declared “Happy Holidays” as a secular war on Christmas and say the greeting secularizes what should be a religious celebration.

This year, 27 percent told PRRI their Christmas isn’t particularly religious — exchange presents, have a meal, head on home. That’s a 10-point jump from 2010, when only 17 percent of ...

Merry Christmas or Happy ... celebrating Hanukkah as a religious holiday and Christmas as more of a ... to honor Lauren’s mother’s Buddhist faith and set intentions for the new year, ...