Learn how the Punjabi festival Lohri is celebrated with traditional rituals. Follow this step-by-step guide to embrace its essence.

For those unable to visit, English Heritage will also livestream the event. The winter solstice draws thousands of visitors annually, many of whom come to experience the spiritual and cultural ...

There’s a busy calendar of folk song and dance performances, and locals mark the winter solstice with pagan celebrations that include the rolling and burning of the Yule log and dressing up in ...

According to Homeless Death Count, a group that documents deaths among people experiencing homelessness, at least 20 people experiencing homelessness die every single day in the U.S. The average ...

Churches across the Chicago area have been hosting “Blue Christmas” services to offer solace for those enduring pain, ...

Annual Blues Christmas and Homeless Memorial Service at the Sanctuary at St. Paul’s United Church of Christ on the Winter Solstice Saturday ... filled with songs and prayers.

Homer described how the festival attendants would say prayers to Poseidon, eat their share of the sacrificial animals, and drink large quantities of wine. Christmas is celebrated by most modern ...

The winter solstice sunrise was greeted by thousands of people at Stonehenge, with a focus on "renewal, rebirth and good ...

Thousands of tourists, pagans, druids and people yearning for the promise of spring have marked the dawn of the shortest day ...

The Winter Solstice, which occurs on Dec. 21 this year ... it is adapted from the Episcopal Prayer Book. I think of the families in Perry that have endured too much darkness with the hurricanes ...

The winter solstice, the official start of winter, will occur at 4:21 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 21. For those north of the equator, which is all of the United States, the solstice marks the shortest ...