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At midnight on Christmas Eve, the words of the traditional hymn 'The Night of Christmas” will ring out in the tiny grotto in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built...
Seasonal celebrations returned last weekend to the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, when the coloured lights on the massive Christmas tree blossomed for the...
Jerry Zezima, Tribune News Service Since I am in the holiday spirit (and, having just consumed a mug of hot toddy, a glass of eggnog and a nip of...
Christmas spirit — and a fair bit of sass — poured out of the comments as Independent readers waded into one of the biggest festive debates: when should the...
Helen Coffey, The Independent The Christmas creep seems to get earlier every year and the rules ever more complicated. As No 10 unveils its fir, Helen Coffey digs into...
“Merry Christmas to all” or as I am now told to say “Happy holidays” or “Seasons greetings”. Several well meaning, basically sane people have told me that it could...
The embattled West Bank hill town of Bethlehem faces a second cold Christmas as Palestinian Christians leave, and tourists stay away from the birthplace of Jesus and Christianity. “During these...
US retail sales rose 3.1% between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, as shoppers looked for last-minute Christmas deals amid big promotions, a Mastercard report showed on Tuesday. The increase is...
Redmond Mitchard, The Independent When you’re three, an annual tradition might as well be a thousand-year astrological convergence. My son wakes up every day and runs through a mental...
