This article discusses the final category: federal holidays that are religious in origin but are now seemingly celebrated secularly, with New Year’s Day as an excellent example of that.

All the wishes and greetings for 2025 count for nothing. The New Year tradition stems from a conjecture, as humans have no ...

It also shared links with other Roman and pagan festivals ... pagans who were used to celebrating around this time on their calendar. One other prevalent theory is that December 25 was chosen ...

Director Nicholas Ray has brooded long and wisely upon the meaning of his meanings, has planted plenty of symbols along the path, yet avoided the banalities of religious calendar art. King of ...

Only the God of Christmas, the God whose birth as a human being took place on 25 December, can give us the true happiness we seek in this life and eternal life in the age to come.

New Year's Eve was celebrated in ancient times, contrary to what some may believe. It was among the most universal pagan ...

But even in supposed victory, his gloating found few echoes; the so-called War on Christmas, rather than ending in climactic struggle and triumph, seemed to just fade away from the national discourse.

the Christian church had established itself as the official faith of the Roman Empire and had as one of its objectives the elimination of paganism. To accomplish this the church adopted many pagan ...

It is widely observed on December 25, while some Orthodox churches (Armenian and Russian, for instance), following the Julian ...

Contrary to popular opinion, the birth of Christ on December 25 is not the Christian assumption of a pagan holiday ... coincided with March 25 in the Roman calendar, which would later become ...

I have no particular expectations for the New Year ...