TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...

The song known in English as The Carol of the Bells is widely recognized as a Christmas melody. But in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, residents know it as Shchedryk, a work by a local composer. The ...

Many people will be taking down their Christmas decorations this week. Before you put your tree out on the curb, a local farm ...

Father Vasyl Diychuk, 41, shows the spot near the river where his village used to build an ice town on Epiphany, celebrated ...

Pope Francis called for “arms to be silenced” around the world in his Christmas address on yesterday, appealing for peace in ...

Christmas revellers around the world donned red and white Santa hats, offered meals to the homeless and lit candles on ...

Pope Francis has called for “arms to be silenced” around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan as he denounced the “extremely grave” ...

Christmas is just around the corner, and the air is filled with festive cheer—jingle bells, twinkling lights, joyful music, ...

This will be the first Christmas that Lyubov spends without her son Taras Onyskiv, who died aged 32 in May while fighting off Russian troops on the eastern front.

Protests erupted in Christian neighborhoods of the Syrian capital Damascus after a Christmas tree was set on fire in another ...

From New York's Rockefeller tree to Medellin's annual festival of lights, this is how cities around the world are decked out ...

We all have our treasured Christmas traditions, but in some parts of the world, typical yuletide celebrations can be a tad ...