Holiday traditions feel timeless, like they’ve always existed in their current form. Families gather around Christmas trees.

The stock market will close in observance of Christmas Day on Thursday, December 25. It will also close at 1PM ET on December ...

Halloween's origins in ancient Celtic festivals and its integration with Christian holidays. Read how Costa Rica adapts the ...

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Find out Halloween is a Christian holiday, its origins in faith and folklore, and how believers can approach it with wisdom and grace.

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year’s Eve, the last day of the year, is on December 31. In many countries, New Year’s Eve is celebrated at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, ...

Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, is a five-day celebration for Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains. The holiday's date is determined by the lunar calendar, typically falling in late October or early ...

ROCHESTER – Rochester Public Schools is starting to consider ways it could allow students more freedom to celebrate religious holidays that have not been included in the district’s annual calendar. On ...

California became the third state in the nation to officially recognize Diwali, the Hindu “Festival of Lights,” as a statewide holiday. The declaration comes from Assembly Bill 268, which was signed ...

October will be a busy month in Michigan, with fall festivities across the state, a federal holiday and several religious celebrations all just ahead. Fall typically becomes more pronounced in October ...

Winter Park’s year-end festivities will be called “Holidays on Park,” dropping last year’s Christmas branding, as the executive director and three board members of the business group overseeing ...

Apple has been hit with a federal lawsuit accusing the company of denying religious accommodations and engaging in retaliatory firing. On Tuesday, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ...