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VIDEO December 25, 2016

How to keep the peace with your family this holiday season

Using faith as a guide

RELIGION December 25, 2016

Mali's Christians return to church under police protection

As the sun starts to fall, the call to prayer at the mosque echoes throughout Gao, a predominantly Muslim town in northern Mali.

Europe December 25, 2016

Queen Elizabeth II to praise those who inspired her in talk

Queen Elizabeth II will use her Christmas Day message to praise British Olympic and Paralympic athletes and others who inspired her.

Europe December 25, 2016

Pope wishes Christmas peace to those scarred by war

Pope Francis has wished Christmas peace for people scarred by wars and those who lost loved ones to terrorism that he says is sowing "fear and death" in many cities and countries.

RELIGION December 25, 2016

Egypt confirms arrests of Al-Jazeera journalist

Egypt's state news agency says the state prosecutor has ordered the arrest of an Al-Jazeera TV news producer for "fabricating reports" on the country's internal situation with the aim of harming national security and sedition against the state.

Europe December 25, 2016

Text of Pope Francis' Christmas day message

The following is the Vatican's official translation of Pope's Francis' traditional "Urbi et Orbi" Christmas day message, delivered in Italian from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica Sunday: Dear Brothers and Sisters, Happy Christmas! Today the Church once more experiences the wonder of the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and the shepherds of Bethlehem, as they contemplate the newborn child laid in a manger: Jesus, the Savior.

VIDEO December 25, 2016

Father Jonathan Morris shares his Christmas message

樱桃视频 religion contributor weighs in

Europe December 25, 2016

Pope celebrates Christmas Eve Mass after year of peace pleas

Pope Francis is celebrating Christmas Eve Mass in a packed St. Peter's Basilica, rounding out a year marked by his pleas for the world to better protect the innocent people caught up in wars, migrations and abject poverty.

RELIGION December 24, 2016

Catholic envoy to Holy Land expresses hope for Aleppo

The top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land says he's glad that "at least the military war" in the Syrian city of Aleppo is over and that Christians there can celebrate Christmas "without fear." Rev. Pierbattista Pizzaballa traveled from Jerusalem in a traditional Christmas Eve procession on Saturday ahead of midnight mass in Bethlehem.

Europe December 24, 2016

Knights of Malta to pope: Stay out of our internal affairs

The Order of Malta, the ancient Roman Catholic aristocratic lay order, has told Pope Francis that his decision to launch an investigation into the ouster of a top official over a condom scandal is "unacceptable." In an extraordinary rebuke of the pontiff, the group said the replacement of its grand chancellor was an "act of internal governmental administration of the Sovereign Order of Malta and consequently falls solely within its competence." Francis on Thursday appointed a five-member commission to investigate the ouster of Albrecht von Boeselager amid evidence that Francis' own envoy to the group helped engineer it without his blessing.