“Silent Night” depictions of Christ’s birth are unrealistic, as plastic as decorations that appear on lawns every December, ...

That holds true for Christmas Eve, too, which should mostly be a silent night. Christmas Day will be mild but significantly ...

Like many myths, the original facts regarding the famous truce took lives of their own in the years following World War I.

Many Christmas songs brightly celebrate the season but lots touch on sadder themes. Here are 7 songs about loneliness, loss, ...

Christ Community Church, with its main campus in South Elgin/St. Charles, celebrates the 40th anniversary of its founding in ...

Here, on Christmas Eve in 1818, Father Joseph Mohr first strummed Silent Night on his guitar, accompanied by a melody ...

The Jonathan Levine -helmed film plunges into the dynamic of a friend group who reunites every Christmas Eve to have the ...

When I was in Vietnam in 1965 in the 1st Infantry Division, when Christmas Eve came, some of us got together and sang two songs, the first one was the ever famous, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas, If Only ...

The goal of every animal shelter is to be empty, but during the holidays that is even more important. In December, shelters ...

Christians in Bethlehem marked a sombre Christmas as the ongoing war cast a shadow over the celebrations. Pope Francis led ...

“Silent Night” is one of the most popular Christmas hymns, often sung in churches lit only by candles. The song describes a “tender and mild” infant Christ slumbering undisturbed in ...