Christmas carols, for example, started out as a pagan winter ceremony called ... seeing it was impossible to stamp out these holidays and celebrations, simply overlaid them with the Christ ...

As we enter this Christmas season ... I hope that we can keep this holiday as a celebration of Christ and not let it simply slip into a pagan commercial opportunity to have fun and buy gifts ...

Angels We Have Heard on High; A Child Is Born; You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch; In the Bleak Midwinter; Jolly Old St. Nicholas; We Three Kings; Have a Holly Jolly Christmas; Ave Maria; Winter Wonderland ...

Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the centre of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition. But these ...