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Pope Francis made “peace” the theme of his 2023 Christmas message, urging the world to say “no” to weapons.

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach was harassed Monday evening by anti-Israel activists while skating in Manhattan, according to video posted by Boteach online.

At least 140 people were killed by gunmen who attacked remote villages over two days in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau state, survivors and officials said Tuesday.

A rocket fired by the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah from Lebanon hit a church in a Palestinian Christian town and wounded a guard on Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and news reports.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted on Christmas Eve that the story the birth of Jesus Christ paralleled the plight of Palestinians today, inverting the facts about both Jesus and contemporary Israel.

Pro-Palestinian protesters converged on the homes of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Christmas Day.

Christians in Nigeria will celebrate Christmas this year facing a relentless onslaught of jihadist terrorism seeking to eliminate them from the country, experts told Breitbart News, with little support from their government.

The sizable Christian population of China — including members of both “legal” Communist Party-controlled churches and illicit “house churches” seeking a private prayer space — faces significant persecution if found to be “too enthusiastic” in celebrating Christmas, David Curry, the president and CEO of Global Christian Relief, told Breitbart News in a recent conversation.

Millions of Nicaraguans will spend Christmas under the growing repression of communist dictator Daniel Ortega, who has arrested and banished members of the Catholic Church, prohibited Catholic festivities, and intimidated Christians into silence.

Ukraine is signaling its difference from Russia in a new way, by departing from the Orthodox tradition of observing the Julian calendar.

Christians across the world celebrate Christmas 2023 this week – the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem, a town in Israel about a 45-minute modern drive east of Jerusalem. Christians honor Jesus’ birth, proclaiming as an essential belief of the Christian faith that Jesus was born to a virgin mother, miraculously conceived by the God who created the universe – proclaiming that Jesus is the divine Son of God.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a Christmas message on Sunday, Christmas Eve, thanking Christians around the world for their support for the Jewish state during its war against Hamas terror.

Activists have been doing everything in their power to give North Koreans, ruled by dictator Kim Jong-un, a message of hope for Christmas.

If Die Hard is a Christmas movie, then Miracle on 34th Street (1947) is a Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter movie all rolled into one. Easter? A man who performs miracles is betrayed by those close to him, gets locked up,

American Archbishop Charles Chaput has sharply criticized Pope Francis for sowing confusion and ambiguity as well as for his “unjust” criticism of U.S. Catholics.

A Catholic parish in southern Italy has exhibited a Nativity scene featuring the Virgin Mary together with another woman in place of Saint Joseph.

TV executive and actress Candace Cameron Bure says that faith has become increasingly important as she grows older.

An annual Christmas celebration in Melbourne, Australia, was briefly interrupted Sunday night after pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the stage during the live broadcast and tried to hijack events.

A 13-year-old accused of planning a mass shooting at a synagogue in Ohio has reportedly been ordered to write a book report.

Turkish lawmaker George Aslan caused a controversy by delivering a Christian message to Assyrians in their Syriac language.

Nicaragua arrested 11 Evangelical leaders and launched an investigation into three Americans on Wednesday.

ROME — Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, the former head of the Vatican’s doctrinal office, has issued a searing critique of the Vatican’s recent text allowing the blessing of homosexual couples.

The communist Sandinista government of Nicaragua arrested Monsignor Isidro del Carmen Mora Ortega, the bishop of the Diocese of Siuna, on Wednesday shortly after he presided over a Mass in which he prayed for another imprisoned bishop, Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, sentenced to 26 years in prison for “treason.”

A California pastor led a group of hundreds Sunday that met outside a venue hosting a show called “A Drag Queen Christmas,” where they prayed against it.

WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan has declared his “total” dedication to Jesus Christ.

The President of the Austrian Catholic Bishops’ Conference has declared that priests may not refuse to bless gay couples, just two days after the Vatican permitted the practice for the first time.

Breitbart’s Rome Bureau Chief Tom Williams discusses Pope Francis’ decision to reverse the Vatican’s ban on the blessing of homosexual couples.

Pro-LGBT Catholics like Jesuit Father James Martin have lauded the Vatican’s allowance of blessings for gay couples as “a huge step forward.”

A man featured in far-left director Rob Reiner’s upcoming documentary film about “Christian Nationalism” is not a Christian Nationalist.

The Vatican has reversed its position banning the blessing of homosexual couples, asserting that a blessing can now be “offered to all without requiring anything.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Monday that an evangelical Christian solder, Urija Bayer, 20, a commando serving in the Maglan reconnaissance unit, had died as a result of wounds sustained in combat on December 14 in the southern Gaza Strip.

Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, the former number three man in the Vatican, has been found guilty of three counts of embezzlement by a Vatican tribunal and sentenced to five and a half years of prison.

Rev. Catherine Bond and the Rev. Jane Pearce had their union blessed at St John the Baptist church, in Felixstowe, eastern England.

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Friday evening, as both Jews and Muslims were participating in prayers, endangering the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The rockets were intercepted and disabled by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, whose trails could be seen across the evening sky.

Catholics in Nicaragua said the communist Sandinista regime threatened to arrest anyone celebrating Catholic events in public.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that it had suspended several soldiers who were seen in a widely-shared video singing Hanukkah songs through the loudspeaker of a minaret on a mosque during a counter-terror operation in Jenin.