In the last few decades, that knowledge has taken a back seat to the hustle and bustle of shopping, parties and Santa Claus. Even the "comfort and joy" heralded is more about general feelings of ...

In the ABC special Kevin Costner Presents: The First Christmas, the Oscar-winning actor and producer hosts and narrates what is a more realistic retelling of the story of the birth of Jesus Christ, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To some people, Christmastime is nothing more than a season of generosity, joy, dressing up evergreen trees, waiting for Santa ...

Christmas is believed to have first been celebrated in 336 AD by the Romans, but it did not become a widespread Christian festival until the ninth century. It is held on December 25 each year to mark ...

The birth of Jesus was a divine intervention, the moment God Himself stepped into our world as a baby. Now this, in itself, is a gift beyond measure, a gift of love, grace, a gift of salvation that ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It's Christmas, a day to be with friends and family and remember the true meaning of the holiday. With that in mind, as we do every year, we thought a proper way to mark the occasion ...

Billions of people around the world celebrate his birth every year, and hundreds of millions more celebrate the holiday named after him. Whether or not you believe Jesus Christ is the son of God, an ...

A Nativity set, or crèche, is a three-dimensional representation of the birth of Jesus Christ. Some elements of a Nativity set are included because they are mentioned in the Bible. Other figures or ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...