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The small number of Christians remaining in Gaza have marked Christmas early with subdued celebrations in the shadow of ...

Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states.

Catholicism is hot right now. The new American pope is popular for speaking his mind on political subjects such as AI and the ...

From Pagan Winter Festivals to Christian Celebrations Holidays and rituals have always been universal aspects of the human experience, almost inextricably ...

Traveling during the holidays in Europe, you’ll find the season marked not by the number of shopping days left until Christmas, but by a long series of winter festivals – both pagan and ...

Po-Shen Loh never expected the pope to be part of the debate over artificial intelligence. But when Pope Leo XIV began urging ...

LIMA — Lima-area churches have a number of services planned to mark Christmas Eve and Christmas to celebrate the birth of ...

A man accused of shooting dead 15 people at Sydney’s Bondi Beach in an antisemitic attack faced a lengthy delay in getting a ...

Tourists visiting the Trevi Fountain are now going to pay more than just the legendary coin toss over their shoulder to get a ...

Dueling Safdie brother movie projects, Love Island USA chaos, a feces-filled And Just Like That … finale: looking back on an eclectic year for pop culture.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...