A warm flame brightens the winter darkness — the light comes from a humble candle in the window of an Irish home. It is typically placed in a front-facing window on Christmas Eve and lit as a sign of ...

This post was originally published in 2015. It still makes us hungry. Christmas Eve’s Feast of the Seven Fishes is, by Italian Catholic tradition, supposed to be a penitential meal, and it may be, ...

Benedict Costa is excited about the Christmas season because it offers him a week-long holiday, allowing him to be in his Bangladeshi village and participate in traditional Christmas celebrations with ...

You may have heard of the Grinch, the dastardly Yin to Santa’s benevolent Yang, but there are some strange Christmas traditions in Europe that might have slipped off your radar. Here are five of our ...