Apostasy – specifically, conversion to Christianity from Islam – is punishable by death in Iran. Suspected Christians are ...

Birthed as it was on the eve of another revolution, Cappeau and Adam’s song was praised by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine ...

Here, five writers with roots and homes across the continent and diaspora sift through a wide world of sounds for some of the ...

Foreign visitors were surprised by the bustling atmosphere on Christmas Eve in Vietnam and streets and churches being filled ...

His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such ...

Mariah Carey and Wham! dominate the radio during the Christmas season. But Germany has plenty to offer too - and not just ...

Some of our best-loved Christmas traditions, those rituals we consider to be part our national identity, are not British at all.

Already controversial in in France, “Cantique de Noël” made some people uneasy; but in America, the English translation into “O Holy Night” dumped gasoline on a fire.

From Buddhist scholastic prose to Shaiva philosophy, satire, stories, and historiography, Kashmir’s literature evolved as a ...

The tradition in Scotland is to sing the song on Hogmanay — their word for the New Year’s celebrations — with everyone ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...