The solstice - which falls on 21 December - is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the ...

Greek Christmas food finds its roots in many ancient myths with pomegranates, breads, honey sweets, and olive oil as its main ...

Ancient rituals, religious symbolism and royal fashion combined to turn an evergreen into Christmas’s most enduring symbol.

Exploring whether Christmas traditions have pagan origins and how they merged with Christian practices. Judge orders return ...

The Christmas tree is a longstanding tradition that goes back many centuries. Christmas trees are known to have been popular ...

The history of the Christmas tree dates back to pagan winter customs. Later in history, German Christians put apples on fir ...

It is believed that in the 4th century, Pagans admired evergreen trees because they symbolised life and endurance during the ...

Scratch the surface of any holiday tradition and you'll find it's less about timeless ritual and more about historical ...

Though often used interchangeably with ‘Christmas’, the word Yule describes a pagan celebration that happens every year on ...

Santa Claus? Christmas cookies? These, and much else about Christmas, begin in North Jersey and the Lower Hudson Valley ...

There’s a transcendent story — a philosophical story, a cosmic story, a moral story — in Christmas that we sometimes fail to ...

It happens almost every year that propagandists try to steal Christmas from Christ and the Church. A couple of days ago, it ...