In fact, the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned Christmas in 1659. The Puritans banned Christmas due to its ...

December 8, 2025: President Trump releases official White House message honoring the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and Catholic contributions to America. December 9, 2025: Instagram bans Catholic ...

Among the many distinctions between Christianity and every other religion, one that stands out in particular is that God is not a far-off, uninvolved, detached deity. From the first book of the Bible ...

Thus, the Torah tells the Jewish umma, and the Qur’an tells the Muslim umma, the importance of picking yourself up and going (Hajj in Arabic, Hag in Hebrew) with masses of other members of your umma, ...

A mother confiscated her 14-year-old daughter’s iPhone after discovering older men soliciting her daughter for sex through an app that Apple deemed ...

Hanukkah 2025 runs from 14 to 22 December, marking eight nights of light, resilience and community. The Jewish Festival of ...

The top-ranked Celina High School football team is barrelling toward another state championship this month. Its coach is barred from the field.

Kewan Lacy is the biggest star in college football who did not get the recognition he deserves during the regular season in ...

From virtually the moment he and his band of bearded rebels rode into Havana in 1959 until his death from natural causes in 2016, the most iconic leader in Latin America was Fidel Castro. With his ...

In May, I traveled to England to interview, film and photograph for a documentary and articles marking Karl G. Maeser and ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington ...