Nonetheless, Christmas has begun to increase somewhat in popularity in Albania in recent years, and Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox believers celebrate ... Gifts are exchanged, everyone is greeted ...

Orthodox Armenian Christians celebrated Christmas in Bethlehem on Saturday with a midnight mass. For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations have been somber and muted ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast day of Epiphany on Sunday with a traditional dip into icy water even as local emergencies issued weather warnings. Local media showed people bathing ...

Unalaska’s Church of the Holy Ascension hasn’t had a resident priest for a few months, but that didn’t stop parishioners from organizing their annual Christmas celebration. Although no ...

The inaugural’s pageantry was interpreted in sharply different ways across the media spectrum. Podcasters weighed in, too. By Michael M. Grynbaum and John Koblin Nobody summed up the funereal ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

Ratification is in the bag from both of the big parties, and now the real fun begins: playing the parlour game of who gets what when the Cabinet is decided. New taoiseach Micheál Martin, once ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.