The annual appeal and the Christmas xarols of the Greek-Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. His Eminence, Bishop Ezekiel of Dervis and the Co-ordinator of the Greek Welfare Centre of the ...

For much of the Western world, Christmas is celebrated on December 25, according to the Gregorian calendar. Yet in a distinction that dates back centuries, Orthodox Christians follow the Julian ...

Christmas carols have changed a lot over the years but they still hold on to their traditional roots. During the Middle Ages , carollers would travel from house to house, singing songs to spread ...

The earliest Christmas carols were hymns explicitly devoted to the holiday that started appearing around the 4th century ACE. Some of those early hymns are still used today in the Greek Orthodox ...

Greek Christmas celebrations at Brooklyn’s Greek School of Plato December 24, 2024 Brooklyn Eagle Staff Students march in 2023 in the Greek Independence Day Parade in Bay Ridge.

This story was originally published Dec. 8, 2022 WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Christmas carols are one of our oldest holiday traditions. In fact, they probably predate the holiday. Music itself is … ...

Research from English Heritage has revealed that in many cases most carols have never had a 'correct' melody, with current melodic norms dating back to the 19th century.