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Christmas

Empty alleyway and two blue doors
Global Security
Christmas is canceled in Bethlehem
People walk down a normally bustling shopping street in the center of Amsterdam
COVID-19
With Christmas in the balance, nations eye UK omicron surge
In this March 26, 2020, file photo, a boy wears a mask as a preventative measure against the spread of the coronavirus, as he navigates floodwaters mixed with garbage following heavy rains, in the Kibera area of Nairobi, Kenya.
The Big Fix
‘Connecting with God by caring for the environment’: Franciscan monk in Kenya shares Christmas message
A small boat heads out into the sea ice in western Greenland.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Human Intelligence’: a holiday tale
Several people in coats stand around a giant button
Why are so few people born on Christmas Day, New Year’s and other holidays?
A woman poses for a photo surrounded by red Christmas ornaments in Bangkok, Thailand.
Religion
Photos: The world celebrates Christmas
A book is sitting in torn Christmas paper. The title of the book is "Christmas Eve at the Mellops" and a photo caption underneath says "We opened one. We couldn't resist."
How a neighbor bearing gifts turned into a family’s ‘most unexpectedly magical week’
Three girls peer over the pew in church in China.
Religion
China’s new anti-Christmas campaign leaves citizens celebrating in secret
An exhibition of Soviet ornaments and toys at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, Massachusetts
Cosmonauts and corncobs: A peek at some Soviet-era holiday ornaments
Luke Macfarlane and Candace Cameron Bure in “A Shoe Addict’s Christmas.”
Guilty Pleasures
Guilty Pleasure: The anthropological whiteness of Hallmark Channel Christmas movies
A small boat heads out into the sea ice in western Greenland.
Arts, Culture & Media
‘Human Intelligence’: a holiday tale
Pop Songs, Alpendub, Willie
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Redesigning Christmas
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X.mas, Dinnerstein, Vampires
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Sci-Fi Christmas & Regina Spektor
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Arts, Culture & Media
Commentary: Season of Consumption
Arts, Culture & Media
Nutcracker Weary
Arts, Culture & Media
Design for the Real World: Old Saint Nick
Arts, Culture & Media
Nutcracker Nation
Arts, Culture & Media
Unsilent Night
Arts, Culture & Media
Redesigning Christmas
Arts, Culture & Media
Unsilent Night
Arts, Culture & Media
Unsilent Night
Arts, Culture & Media
There Arose Such a Clatter
Arts, Culture & Media
Kurt Andersen’s “Human Intelligence: A Holiday Tale”
Arts, Culture & Media
360 Staff Pick: Modern Madrigals for December
Arts, Culture & Media
Christmas, Atheism, and Intolerance
Arts, Culture & Media
…and a Partridge in a Pear Tree
Arts, Culture & Media
A Guide to 2014’s Alt-Holiday Music
Arts, Culture & Media
Have Yourself a Scary Little Krampus
Arts, Culture & Media
Five Things You Had to See Online This Week
Arts, Culture & Media
Jenny Slate Presents: It’s a Wonderful Short
Arts, Culture & Media
Your Wonderful Holiday Shorts
Arts, Culture & Media
Jenny Slate Picks the Most Wonderful Short
Arts, Culture & Media
A Guide to 2015’s Alt-Holiday Music
Christmas With Leslie Odom Jr.
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Animals are commonly found in nativity scenes, but surprisingly not in the Bible.
Belief
An ox, an ass … a dragon? Sorry, there were no animals in the Bible’s nativity scene.
Hazel Bethel is a Manischewitz wine devotee. She's originally from Trinidad and was introduced to the wine by friends who worked in Jewish homes in New York.
Food
Is that Manischewitz? The Kosher wine is a hit in some Caribbean communities.
Months after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico, damage like this fallen tree on a roof in Utuado have yet to be repaired.
Culture
As hurricane recovery continues, Puerto Rico prepares for Christmas
A Hallaca is a typical Venezuelan dish made out of cornmeal and stuffed with beef, pork, chicken, raisins, capers and olives and then wrapped in a banana leaf and traditionally served on Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Culture
For this Venezuelan, Christmas isn’t Christmas without hallaca
The Takeaway Christmas Special
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Trump and Reagan, A Christmas Treasure, Women in Combat
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Afghan Uncertainty, Space History, Big Data, Christmas Cards
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Turkish Islamist protesters shout slogans against Noel celebrations as they hold an inflatable Santa Claus toy during a demonstration at Beyazit Square in Istanbul December 26, 2013. The sign (front, 2nd) reads: "Christmas is a blow to our Islamism".
Culture
Santa has a complicated relationship with his hometown
A girl holds a snowglobe Christmas ornament in front of her family's tree. Some non-Christian families have adopted trees and other Christmas traditions.
Belief
How to get your non-Christian kids through the Christmas season
An Iraqi Christian man from Mosul, who fled from violence in northern Iraq, reads a book at the Latin Patriarchate Church in Amman, Jordan, on August 21, 2014.
Belief
On Christmas, some of the oldest Christian communities on Earth are on the run
A statue of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas outside the Dylan Thomas Theatre in Swansea, Wales.
Music
A Christmas classic by Dylan Thomas is set to music
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Food
Across America, many Christmas menus have decidedly immigrant roots
A photo of Tam Duong's family during Lunar New Year in the early 1990s. Tam, on the right in the red dress, is from Los Angeles and now lives in Boston. Her parents are from Vietnam and Duong says she was confused as to why Santa never came to their home.
Belief
There’s nothing traditional about an immigrant Christmas
A nativity scene in Bay Lake, Florida.
Music
Five fantastic versions of ‘Silent Night’
Scotty Claus
Lifestyle
Renting a Christmas tree can keep the holiday alive until next year
Arts, Culture & Media
Winston Churchill Addresses the Nation
Arts, Culture & Media
Remixing the Holidays: Christmas Memories with Natalie Cole
Arts, Culture & Media
Your Take: Picking Holiday Songs
Global Scan
How does a family show its support for a son who’s just come out? A rainbow Christmas
Father Gregory Collins, Abbot of the Dormition Abbey in Jerusalem, addresses the Jewish audience in his Christmas sermon.
Lifestyle & Belief
What do you preach to a church full of Jews on Christmas?
Beck snow art
Global Scan
This artist is taking snow angels to an extreme
A massive evergreen tree towers over the atrium in one of Istanbul’s largest malls.
Lifestyle & Belief
Wondering why there’s Christmas in a Muslim country? It’s just business, as usual
Cho Mei and her parents, refugees from Burma, bought their first Christmas tree this year. Mei says she's even participating in a 'Secret Santa' gift exchange with her family-- something she learned from her Burmese church group in Oakland.
Lifestyle & Belief
These Liberian and Myanmar refugees cook up old, and new, Christmas traditions
Track Santa as he moves across the world