While many countries continue to limit the number of people allowed to gather in public spaces this holiday season amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, some have announced outright bans on Christmas parties.

Paris: Wearing hard hats and protective suits, the choir of Notre-Dame Cathedral sang inside the medieval Paris landmark for the first time since last year’s devastating fire for a special Christmas Eve concert. Accompanied by an acclaimed violinist, a rented organ and a soprano soloist, 20 singers....

will look different for many Americans across the U.S. this year, as coronavirus restrictions limit and alter gatherings. Services that are usually attended by hundreds will be capped down to prevent transmission of the virus , as well as following social distancing guidelines.

Prince Edward Island Lt.-Gov. Antoinette Perry says she is "delighted" to be home in Tignish for Christmas, where she will play the pipe organ at Christmas Eve mass as she has done for decades. Perry, who was the organist and choir director at St. Simon and St.

By Vatican News staff writer. With Italy under a new lockdown for the holidays, Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Mass “during the Night” in a near empty Saint Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening. Millions of people were able to follow the ceremony through radio, television and the various means of social communications.

By Vatican News staff writer. With Italy under a new lockdown for the holidays, Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Mass “during the Night” in a near empty Saint Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening. Millions of people were able to follow the ceremony through radio, television and the various means of social communications.

“We’ve never had an election happen like this in December,” said Yoder, the Georgia state captain for the Frontline, a nonpartisan electoral justice project of the Movement for Black Lives and other partner organizations. For Democrats to win control of the Senate, Georgia’s Black communities, as....

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She was accompanied by a number of Housing officials from the City of Cape Town, among them Malusi Booi (DA), Councilor and MAYCO member for Human Settlements, who stated afterwards: “What Minister Sisulu and I have reported to the community is no quick fix, but long-lasting solutions in order to improve the living conditions in Masiphumelele.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Two years after Louisville Metro Police Detective Deidre Mengedoht was killed in a fiery crash on Interstate 64, she was remembered in a virtual graveside ceremony. On Christmas Eve in 2018, Mengedoht pulled a car over on I-64 in downtown Louisville.