English Heritage has acknowledged promoting a "nonsense" theory regarding the origins of Christmas Day celebrations. The ...

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

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

The winter solstice is the astronomical start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, when the North Pole is tilted farthest from the Sun, giving the shortest day and longest night of the year.

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

Sunday is the winter solstice and we’re remembering its magic and mysticism and wider pagan traditions in Cumbria.

One of the problems about the development of traditions around Christmas is that people writing hymns or plays set Jesus' ...

Images from Europe’s Alpine region, and other areas, where villages hold Yuletide parades for Krampus, a demonlike creature ...