Here are seven often-missed details in the Nativity story — each one adding new richness to our understanding of Christmas.

Christmas celebrations are scaled down this year, focusing on giving back to communities rather than on lavish displays.

The Wood County–based pilot had carefully planned the route himself, which he then followed through the dark sky, tracing the ...

Each holiday season, as peppermint mochas return to coffee shop menus and mall Santas take their posts, a familiar kind of religious freedom conflict appears in the news: disputes over […] ...

Jo Ann Deal with the Better Business Bureau said to beware of warning signs that fraud may be happening in plain sight.

The Hernando Sun wishes all a Merry Christmas. Just before Christmas gets here, it is a whirlwind of celebrations, gift buying, card making and visiting with friends and family. When […] ...

If you think you can't get much for $38 this Christmas, think again. You can save a life. A mere $38 is how much it costs Edesia, a long-running nonprofit based in Rhode Island, to make enough of its ...

It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve ...

In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing ...

The U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause creates complexity around government-sponsored religious holiday displays.

The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as ...

What began with a single Nativity set from Puerto Rico has grown into a collection of more than 300 scenes from around the ...