The year will end with a somewhat rare black moon having in the night sky over Wyoming. While that may sound like an ominous ...

During the month of December, we have been looking back through the pages of the church’s history books to peek at the church ...

The holidays have occurred on the same day four times since 1900, according to Hebcal, a website that tracks Jewish holidays ...

As many people gear up to celebrate the start of their New Year at the beginning of January, we take a look at how other ...

Over thousands of years, various cultures have developed calendars based on astronomical observations, leading to diverse ...

This is the latest in a Saturday series of stories and photographs featuring local holiday traditions. JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – For those observing Orthodox Christmas, it's a time of self-reflection, prayer ...

Christmas and Hanukkah both always fall on the 25th, but of two different months, with Christmas coming on the 25th of December on the Gregorian calendar, and Hanukkah starting on the 25th day of the ...

That doesn’t sound like much, but those minutes add up to days over time. Pope Gregory XIII solved this problem in 1582 when he came up with the Gregorian calendar we use today, the most widely used ...

Opponents of the Gregorian Calendar Date On the other hand, some of the Gedolei Yisrael (imminent rabbis) strongly opposed using the Gregorian date, claiming that those who used it were being ...