Pope Francis offered Christmas wishes Wednesday for a better world, praying for protection for Christians under attack, battered women and trafficked children, peace in the Middle East and Africa, and dignity for refugees fleeing misery and conflict around the globe.
Here are five things to know about the holiday tradition called NORAD Tracks Santa.
Before her death, an Iowa woman wrote a letter to be delivered to her husband when he fell in love again. The wishes in her letter have been granted, thanks to an Iowa radio station.
First there was Batkid, but the latest child-come-superhero to make a name on the streets of California is a 10-year-old Vallejo girl who was diagnosed with leukemia in April.
The United Methodist church defrocked a pastor from central Pennsylvania on Thursday for violating doctrine by officiating his son’s gay marriage, leaving the minister shocked and upset that he could be punished for an “act of love.”
As a final goodbye to the home he shared with his now-deceased wife, Ben Nunery touchingly recreated some of the couple’s wedding day photos with his daughter, Olivia.
Renowned 3-D street painter Melanie Stimmel Van Latum and two other artists recreated the world’s largest candy wall in a 3-D painting outside the M&M’s World store on the Las Vegas Strip last week.
An anonymous donor is making the holidays merrier for shoppers with Christmas gifts on layaway at an Ohio store.
A California man took a nightime dive in the waters around a Southern California pier and came away with a monster of a lobster and the catch of a lifetime.
Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year on Wednesday, saying the Catholic Church’s new leader has changed the perception of the 2,000-year-old institution in an extraordinary way in a short time.
