Advent is perhaps the most challenging liturgical season for Christians. The secular world has kidnapped this time intended ...

His mother bought a small 3-foot-tall tree, which was set up on a table ... Many of the things in the displays, like the nativity stable, and many of the pieces in a train village, were handmade by ...

Francis has long been sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. He recently called for an investigation to determine if Israel's ...

Perhaps one of the most special things about the Christmas season is just how universal the holiday is. Unlike Halloween and ...

With mild December temperatures predicted for this weekend, the conditions should be perfect as the New Holland Christian ...

The Christmas crib depicts the birth of Jesus, serving as a reminder of the holiday's true meaning. Key elements include the ...

Very Cherry Holiday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 7, Cherry Building, 329 10th Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids. Open house, with ...

If you know a lot of traditional Christmas carols, and you listen to the Nativity story in the Gospel of Luke, you realize ...

Soon after Thanksgiving, a group of volunteers with Paonia Lions Club will gather on the slopes of Cedar Hill (locally known ...

Picture Jesus’ nativity ... Joseph and a small lamb sit in silent adoration of the child. All is calm, all is not quite right. I am sorry to spoil the scene, but Jesus wasn’t born in a stable, and, ...

A rope system was set up by the rescue crew to lower the victims into waiting ... students are not being released for privacy reasons, Money said they are both stable and recovering well. He credits ...

The display features 20 nativity sets of all shapes and sizes that came from the society’s volunteers, including a set dated back to the mid-1900s and one that is handmade. Another is part of a ...