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Christmas cards featuring alcohol are reinforcing binge drinking as a social norm, say health experts
Christmas cards and birthday cards that make light of drinking are reinforcing negative social attitudes around excessive alcohol consumption, experts warn in the British Medical Journal.
Post-natal depression in dads linked to emotional problems in teenage daughters
One in 20 dads was found to have experienced post-natal depression, a condition commonly associated with mothers of newborns
Iraqi Christians celebrate Christmas one year after Islamic State defeat
Iraqi Christians quietly celebrated Christmas on Tuesday amid improved security
Differences are not a danger, says Pope Francis in Christmas Day message
Pope Francis has urged people to see their differences as a source of richness and not of danger in his Christmas message to the world.
Franklin Graham shares the one Christmas tradition from his childhood that he didn't keep
Franklin Graham says his mother, Ruth Graham, made Christmas a fun time in their home, but there's one tradition he hasn't continued.
God's love leaves no room for hatred or tribalism, says Archbishop of Canterbury
The Archbishop of Canterbury has urged people to put aside their differences this Christmas and instead embrace God's language of love.
Who were the Magi and why did they come to worship Jesus?
In the Western Christian tradition, they have been given names â Balthasar, king of Chaldea, Caspar, king of Tarshish, and Melchior, king of Nubia. But none of these are original.
Queen appeals for unity in Christmas Day speech
The Queen used her traditional Christmas Day speech to call on people to show respect for one another in spite of differences.
Christmas season left Victorian shop workers 'more dead than alive'
Many of our festive traditions â from exchanging cards and pulling crackers to decorating trees â were popularised by the Victorians.
Charles Dickens and the birth of the classic English Christmas dinner
Charles Dickens popularised the traditional, English Christmas in 1843 in his novel A Christmas Carol, when Bob Cratchit and his family sit down on Christmas Day to eat a dinner of goose with mashed potatoes and apple sauce accompanied by sage and onion stuffing and followed by Christmas pudding.
Indonesian rescuers use drones, sniffer dogs as tsunami death toll rises
Indonesian rescuers on Tuesday used drones and sniffer dogs to search for survivors along the devastated west coast of Java.
'The Numinous Woman': How a Cornish poet caught the mystery of the Incarnation
One of the most intriguing of Christmas poems is not as well known as it should be.
Remember the poor and shun materialism, pope says on Christmas Eve
Francis, 82 led a solemn service for nearly 10,000 people in St Peter's Basilica for his traditional Christmas Eve Mass.
Good news of great joy: Immanuel has come
I remember my first Santa Claus doubts. How could a fat man get down a skinny chimney, not just at our house, but at the houses of little boys and girls all over the world?
Tight security at Pakistan's churches this Christmas as Asia Bibi remains in hiding
Security has been ramped up at churches across Pakistan where tensions are still simmering over the recent acquittal of Christian woman Asia Bibi.
Nigeria's president plays down violence against Christians in Christmas message
Nigeria's president gave only a weak nod to the Christian communities being devastated by brutal attacks in his Christmas message to the nation.