Dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating are popular Halloween activities, but few probably associate these lighthearted fall traditions with their origins in Samhain, a three-day ancient Celtic ...

The Halloween traditions that we celebrate today, in America, originate from the Celtic pagan festival called “Samhain.“ The phrase is from ancient Gaelic. It means “end of summer.” According to ...

If you’ve ever decorated a Christmas tree and thought, “This feels a little too magical to be strictly Christian,” ...

FARGO - While Easter or Spring Break may be a signal for many that it's time for renewal, area pagans and Wiccans recognize spring through ancient festivals during the spring equinox, sometimes called ...

For its eighth year, the York Pagan Pride Day Festival, an event aimed at stimulating curiosity and curbing misconceptions about a peaceful community that is working against hate, was back in Lower ...

On another rainy Saturday, Minnehaha Park welcomed the Twin Cities Pagan Pride Festival for a vibrant event full of unique artists, educational rituals and so much more. Many gathered to celebrate ...

BELLEVILLE, MI - It's perhaps Michigan's largest Pagan and holistic event of the year. We checked out the Michigan Pagan Festival, which took place all weekend at the Wayne County Fairgrounds. The ...

You know the bumper sticker, of course. Around 350 A.D., you might have seen it on any passing chariot. Or plastered on the back of an ox cart. And if it wasn't, it should have been. Time to take a ...

For millennia, every December 25, Christians have celebrated the feast of the birth of Jesus Christ. As the Catechism says (525-526): Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family. Simple ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KHOTIV, Ukraine (AP) — Despite war-time ...