Last year, more than 14,000 Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts were packed by residents all over the area.

We commonly communicate, but communication reaches a new level in sacredly celebrating your birthday -- Christmas Day. Times passes swiftly. But it comes to a halt on Christmas. We pay homage and ...

opinion Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor — Tamales, a rural Christmas memory, going vegan, student letters Readers mention the holiday tradition of eating tamales; share their holiday ...

Dear Jesus, We communicate frequently, but communication reaches a new level in sacredly celebrating your birthday — Christmas Day. Time passes swiftly. But it comes to a halt on Christmas. We ...

The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born in a manger to a Virgin far from home — and offer something new ...

Was there ever a lonelier and scarier Christmastime? Maybe, though Christmas 1943 ranks high up there. A little more than two years after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, America’s sons and ...

On Christmas Eve, Ukrainian families create a living Nativity scene by spreading straw across the floor and placing hay beneath the dinner tablecloth. “This gesture connects the birth of Jesus ...

For Christians worldwide, this season is a reminder that we are people of hope, not despair. We have a home that transcends this world. Before his crucifixion, Jesus promised his disciples that he ...

Christmas is also the time to reflect on the teachings of Jesus and his message of love, compassion, and forgiveness. His birth is seen as a divine and holy event.

To some people’s frustration, the word Christmas begins with the word Christ. That means Christ is in the meaning. Christ means the anointed one. Jesus, the Christ, is the anointed One, anointed ...

Since 1993, Operation Christmas Child has collected and delivered more than 220 million gift-filled shoeboxes to children in more than 170 countries and territories.

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