There’s a perennial debate that arises at the end of every year when December and the beginning of Advent roll around. It’s one that leaves all of the people who have started humming carols under ...

An email was sent to clergy members warning them over otential confusion - FOTOGRAFIA Priests should provide context for Christmas carols so diverse communities “feel welcome”, a bishop has said.

In the fall of 1847, a French wine merchant, Placide Cappeau, was asked by his local priest to write a Christmas poem. Not long after, Placide Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the ...

Christmas in the United States is a holiday chiefly for children. It is a season of candy canes and presents, “A Christmas Story” and the Grinch, mall Santas and the exhausted mothers whose valor they ...

You might have many favorite Christmas carols. But do you know the stories behind them? Here are the stories behind some of my favorite Christmas carols: • “O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste, Fideles)” ...

A celebratory concert of Holiday music that the whole family can enjoy, the program includes the exuberant Bach Christmas Oratorio Part V: Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen (Praise be sung by you, God), a ...

A state-sponsored ecumenical Christmas carol program in Malaysia’s Christian-majority Sarawak state drew thousands of participants becoming the largest gathering of its kind in the country, says a ...

Bishops within the Church of England have raised concerns that certain Christmas carols might be “problematic” because of ...

• “O Little Town of Bethlehem” was written by Phillips Brooks, who was rector of Holy Trinity Church in Philadelphia when he wrote this carol in 1865 while on a trip to the Holy Land. On Christmas Eve ...

Watch Lea Salonga perform 'O Holy Night' with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra. The Christmas poem “Minuit, chrétiens,” written by a French merchant Placide Cappeau, was set to music by famed French ...