Orthodox churches that celebrate the Nativity according to the Julian calendar marked the great Christian holiday on Wednesday. An Orthodox priest offers sacred wine and bread to believers after a ...

Once synonymous with NBA basketball, Christmas Day no longer belongs solely to the league. The NFL avoided Christmas Day games for three decades before returning to the holiday in 2020, cautiously ...

Netflix and Amazon jingled all the way to some big audiences on Christmas Day, thanks to the NFL. The most-watched game of the holiday proved to be the mid-afternoon Lions-Vikings match up on Netflix, ...

Jahmyr Gibbs #0 of the Detroit Lions is tackled by Dallas Turner #15 of the Minnesota Vikings (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images) The NFL scored big on Netflix’s Christmas Gameday as its presentation of ...

For the NBA, Christmas Day in 2025 was a resounding success — at least in terms of viewership. Across the five-game slate on the Disney networks, 47.19 million unique viewers tuned in, making it the ...

A police response to reports of a raccoon behaving erratically turned into a gruesome public spectacle in a Mass. town on Christmas Day. Hopedale police on Thursday killed a raccoon in a Hopedale ...

The United States launched airstrikes in Nigeria against Islamic State militants on Christmas Day after President Donald Trump threatened in November to go into the country "guns-a-blazing" over what ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Worshippers at St. Sylvester’s R.C. church in Concord were shocked to learn the front of their church was defaced with feces Thursday while they were inside celebrating Christmas ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan marked the end of an era at the Archdiocese of New York on Thursday, delivering his final Christmas Day Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Catholics from across New York City and ...

For the first time, a Christmas Day Mass was held on Thursday inside the Century Regional Detention Facility, bringing a message of hope and forgiveness to women spending the holiday behind bars. The ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV during his first Christmas Day message on Thursday urged the faithful to shed indifference in the face of those who have lost everything, such as in Gaza, those who ...