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This calendar is not an exhaustive list either of religious or cultural traditions or of the holidays observed in those traditions. If we have not included a religious tradition or major religious ...

It is known to have all started with the Celts from Central Europe and their pagan religious festival Samhain (pronounced “sow-win”), marking the end of summer or the beginning of “the dark half of ...

Other recent suggestions by readers include marking the Celtic festivals of the year on a grand scale, and sure we already have Samhain sorted.

Samhain is even mentioned in some of the earliest Irish literature. The Celtic peoples celebrated their New Year on November 1 and, like us with our New Year traditions, spent much of the night ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- More than a hundred years ago, the great Dutch theologian Hermann Bavinck predicted that the 20th century would "witness a gigantic conflict of spirits." His prediction turned out ...