Assimilation no doubt played a role in making Hanukkah the commercialized holiday it is today. But other factors shaped the ...

Picture: AFP Fireworks lit up the Brandenburg Gate as ... Picture: Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images People enjoy New Year's Eve celebrations at Christmas Market in Damascus. Picture: Getty Brazilians ...

From the Magdeburg Christmas market attack, conflict in the Middle East, the Russian-Ukrainian war and Christmas celebrations ...

Berlin has around 50 Christmas markets, including one near the Brandenburg Gate on Unter Den Linden (while a further large market is held in the vast Gendarmenmarkt, just south of said boulevard).

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this Holy Year “to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions” plaguing ...

Pilgrims submitted to security controls, amid new safety concerns following a deadly Christmas market attack in Germany ... menorah in front of the Brandenburg Gate. An elderly Christian couple ...

As Christmas coincided with the start ... by the Jewish Chabad Educational Centre in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) – Iraqi Christians persist in their ...