For enslaved people in the Americas, the holiday season was a time of both rare festivity and calculated resistance.

According to tradition, it marks the visit of the Three Wise Men to baby Jesus. The three kings —Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar — gifted baby Jesus gold, frankincense, and myrrh, respectively. For ...

Video. A large crowd watched on as dozens of swimmers rushed to retrieve a wooden cross thrown by a priest into the water, in ...

Video. Santería practitioners in Cuba, the country's most practiced faith rooted in African traditions, warn of a troubled ...

Across the USA, residents look forward to the countdown to midnight on New Year's Eve. As the countdown ensues, a Waterford ...

From a donut that protects against witches to a pastry that will tell your fortune, cultures around the world often start the ...

( The Hill) — A detainee at a military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been repatriated to Tunisia, the Pentagon ...

Celebrations will echo around the globe as the New Year arrives in different time zones, with American Samoa among the last ...

The island operates 14 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and 8.5 hours ahead of India. This means that when it was ...

Setting things on fire is a common New Year's Eve ritual. Some believe it allows you to let go of painful things that ...

With a focus on human rights, US policy toward Latin America under Jimmy Carter briefly tempered a long tradition of ...