ROME (AP) — Curfews, quarantines and even border closings complicated Christmas celebrations Friday for countless people around the globe, but ingenuity, determination and imagination helped ...

Don't expect new Christmas stamps this year because for the first time in decades the U.S. Postal Service won't issue a new stamp depicting any Christian religious figure or symbol. No baby Jesus ...

This Christmas we knew that Christians, Jews, other religious minorities, and even Muslims would be persecuted in majority Muslim nations. We need an Islamic awakening to end discrimination and ...

According to the Greeting Card Assn., a trade group, about 30% of customers choose Christmas cards with religious messages. That has been rising since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks four years ago ...

As long-simmering debates continue over how American society should commemorate the Christmas holiday, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that most U.S. adults believe the religious aspects of ...

In a house close to the church, Layla Wana sat alone with her husband under a big Christmas tree. “We’re not feeling the Christmas spirit at all,” said Wana, 67, dressed in a black tracksuit.

I often feel depressed,” said Alvaro Puig, an 81-year-old in Spain who spent Christmas Eve eating dinner alone with his pet rabbit. “These holidays, instead of making me happy, make me sad. I ...