Christmas is celebrated on December 25 due to a mix of theology, symbolism, and historical context, not a single pagan ...

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people.

Dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating are popular Halloween activities, but few probably associate these lighthearted fall traditions with their origins in Samhain, a three-day ancient Celtic ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...

On another rainy Saturday, Minnehaha Park welcomed the Twin Cities Pagan Pride Festival for a vibrant event full of unique artists, educational rituals and so much more. Many gathered to celebrate ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...

Celebrate the Autumn Equinox and help your community at the Central Jersey Pagan Pride Day festival from 10 a.m.-8 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16 in Lot F, Colonial Park, East Millstone. All ages are ...

Poet Javed Akhtar claimed that Christmas was moved from spring to December to coincide with a popular pagan festival to ease religious transition in ancient Rome. History, however, shows that December ...

KHOTIV, Ukraine (AP) — Despite war-time restrictions, Ukrainians marked midsummer with festivals that featured frenetic folk dancing, flower decoration and jumping over bonfires. The festival of Ivana ...

BELLEVILLE, MI - It's perhaps Michigan's largest Pagan and holistic event of the year. We checked out the Michigan Pagan Festival, which took place all weekend at the Wayne County Fairgrounds. The ...