The word “tradition” plays into many holidays, and probably no more so than what we see with Thanksgiving and Christmas.For ...

Today, Hanukkah (also known as the Festival of Lights) is a happy occasion when families and friends gather together to celebrate the triumph of light over darkness by lighting candles for eight ...

Lent is the time before Easter during which the faithful abstain and fast in remembrance of the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made on Calvary. It is a 40-day time of preparation before Easter ...

It has an ancient tradition and marks the build-up to the main celebrations ahead of the Christian fasting season of Lent that leads up to Easter. Crowds are especially anticipated in Cologne's ...

Q: What family traditions do your family share during ... practice permeated everything Jesus did and said. During Lent and Easter, the Jewish roots of the Sacraments of Initiation—Baptism ...

More than a year after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack, most American Jews are broadly supportive of Israel but harshly critical of its leadership and prosecution of the war on Gaza, according to an ...

K P Sharma Oli is seen as an ally of China and a strong advocate for BRI projects, seeking to expedite their implementation in Nepal. Nepal’s Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli is planning ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

But that is changing as more people replace the pressures of gift giving and holiday traditions with self-care and the chance to make up for travel opportunities they missed during the Covid ...

Official sources said the Prime Minister will visit Beijing most likely between December 2 and December 5. Oli’s China visit is seen as a visible break from the ‘tradition’ of the new Nepali PM ...