The New Year on the Islamic calendar, or Hijri, announces the year as 1441, which began on the first evening of the month of Muharram, or December 8, 2014, on the Christian Gregorian calendar.

“Happy Holidays,” a greeting that grew to encompass both Christmas and the Jewish holiday Hanukkah, actually shows the power of Christianity to flatten the culture of minority religious faiths.

This year, 27 percent told PRRI their Christmas isn’t particularly religious — exchange presents, have a meal, head on home. That’s a 10-point jump from 2010, when only 17 percent of ...

Merry Christmas or Happy ... celebrating Hanukkah as a religious holiday and Christmas as more of a ... to honor Lauren’s mother’s Buddhist faith and set intentions for the new year, ...

When the question is presented as a choice between “Merry Christmas” and the less religious terms, 57% pick “Merry Christmas” and 27% select the less religious terms. (In this instance, even without ...