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 ...

They see the Christmas celebration as a commercialized event with pagan roots. The church views ... The church said Christmas songs and other holiday customs are not included in the Bible or ...

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 ...