More than 90 percent of the U.N. recognized 195 countries of the world recognize Christmas as a public holiday in honor of the birth of Christ. The earliest evidence reaches back to c. AD 200 ...

What they will not have is church on Sunday, Dec. 25. On Christmas Day, StoneBridge will offer a simple community breakfast, but no religious services. “We still believe in the Sunday morning ...

With Christmas falling on a Sunday, some Protestant pastors are canceling services to allow their congregation to spend time at home. On a typical Sunday morning, John and Elisa Handley have to ...

Worried about coaxing people into pews when they’d rather be in their pajamas, some Protestant pastors are canceling Sunday services on Dec. 25. For some churches, following a Christmas Eve ...

At least some Orthodox Ukrainians woke up to Christmas Sunday — along with many other Christians across the globe — instead of Jan. 7, when the holy day is typically commemorated. However ...

I was dumbstruck recently to learn that there will be churches closed on Christmas Day because it falls on a Sunday this year. For those churches not having a service on Christmas Sunday ...

2022 is a rare year when Christmas comes on Sunday. How often does that happen? I’m not a calendar expert, but by my calculations we enjoy a Christmas Sunday only about once every six years.

“A Biltmore Christmas” will premiere on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday. The movie, which was filmed entirely at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville and is set there as well, was announced last ...