A Kolkata boy and UK resident takes a stroll through his favourite festive markets — from Salzburg and Vienna, to London and ...

In 1839, the Ludwig Rainer choir travelled from Austria to the USA and sang folk songs at the Alexander Hamilton Monument ...

Carols like Silent Night and O Holy Night celebrate the nativity with beautiful melodies. Hark The Herald Angels Sing and Joy to the World emphasize Christ's birth, while The First Noel narrates the ...

Here, on Christmas Eve in 1818, Father Joseph Mohr first strummed Silent Night on his guitar, accompanied by a melody ...

Even in the storm. Even in the dark, Jesus is God with us. When we put our hands into his, in the midst of the chaos he ...

I am part Austrian, and every I visit the lakeside hamlets of the Salzkammergut in Styria. They celebrate Christmas in ...

After official attempts at a World War I truce failed, soldiers in the trenches of the Western Front took it upon themselves ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity scene in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. It depicted Jesus' birth ...

Explore the global celebration of Christmas through a vast collection of themed stamps, curated by passionate philatelist ...

It’s an old English tradition that children leave mince pies and brandy for Santa and carrots for the reindeer. In most parts of Austria, Germany, Poland & Switzerland, people exchange and open gifts ...

Christmas would now hardly be complete ... Thanks to Wikipedia mainly, I discovered that the carol came from Austria, that the words had been written by a young Austrian priest, called Fr Joseph ...