war on Christmas

The head of the European Bishops’ Conferences (COMECE) warned EU politicians this weekend that belittling Christians only serves to drive them toward populist parties.

Pope Francis said Monday that the European Union’s recent attempt to cancel Christmas is an “anachronism” more worthy of a Napoleon or a Hitler than modern Europe.

Americans gearing up for the holidays will face inflation at a new level when buying decorations as inflation and the supply chain crisis causing Christmas trees prices to skyrocket.

An internal European Commission communications document has advised bureaucrats to avoid terms like “Christmas time” to be more inclusive.

UK Civil servants have axed the word ‘Christmas’ from a proposed government campaign, for fear the term will offend minorities.

The Vienna government will be holding a security meeting next week following a riot in a migrant-populated district on New Year’s Eve that saw a Christmas tree set on fire by Muslims.

A 20-year-old Muslim was subjected to an assault from an acquaintance and several others after he posted pictures of a Christmas dinner on social media and was called a “dirty son of a white man”.

Disability rights campaigner Jen Bokoff warned that using “Merry Christmas” as a “normal greeting” over the festive period is “white supremacy culture at work”.

Although corporate media who praise Wikipedia as a counter to “fake news” have simultaneously criticized it for perceived gaps in coverage on gender and race, the site also shows a gap in its coverage of Christmas, the most widely-celebrated holiday on Earth other than New Year’s Day. In contrast to the generally under-developed nature of the site’s Christmas content, articles covering video games and the show South Park are generally more developed.

The great American sportsman Ricky Bobby once claimed that the Geneva Convention clearly states that after one says “with all due respect,” he can basically say whatever he wants.

We love these Rankin/Bass specials for the same reason anyone loves any movie or TV show… We’re charmed and moved by the stories, the songs, the characters, and the performers.

Families in the St. Paul area received a letter from a neighbor who complained their Christmas lights are “a reminder of systemic biases.”

Britons should avoid gathering around the Monopoly board, singing with family members, or hugging loved ones during the Christmas season, the government’s scientific quango has warned.

China’s war on Christmas “spreads a rhetoric of hate and division,” jeopardizing religious liberty and indoctrinating children, writes Peter den Hartog in the South China Morning Post Saturday.

The Hungarian government has warned that Christians and Christianity are increasingly being driven out of public life in Europe, as well as being persecuted around the world more viciously than any other religious minority. 

Diversity Council Australia is urging employers to drop “Christmas parties” in favour of “holiday season drinks” so Muslims and other non-Christians “feel included at this time of year”.

Governments on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have banned Christians from celebrating Christmas in private homes, according to a report Thursday from International Christian Concern (ICC).

Christians in India are facing one of their most difficult Christmases in memory and in just one week have suffered over a half dozen acts of targeted persecution, according to a report Wednesday from International Christian Concern (ICC).

A group of around 50 far-left activists stormed a nativity play involving children in Toulouse on Saturday, shouting at the children and telling them they were “fascists”.

A poll has found that a majority of people in Germany would scale back or scrap their festive Christmas lights altogether to combat allegedly man-made climate change.

Pope Francis came out swinging against the war on Christmas Thursday, saying that secularists want to eliminate Christian symbols like the Nativity scene because they are afraid of the real meaning of Christmas.

Pope Francis has called for renewed efforts to exhibit Nativity scenes in order to keep the true meaning of Christmas in the public eye.

Amazon is touting a new children’s book narrating the birth of Jesus Christ as its “#1 New Release in Children’s Christian Holiday Fiction.”

Better Homes & Gardens is urging Americans to “celebrate the season around a bold and colorful rainbow Christmas tree,” in a not-so-subtle bow to the LGBT movement.

Chinese officials have been curtailing public manifestations of Christmas this year as part of President Xi Jinping’s efforts to eliminate vestiges of foreign religions and festivities.

A bunch of Grinches on a city council in the United Kingdom threatened a woman with fines for putting up posters inviting people who are lonely to enjoy a free Christmas dinner.

City officials removed a Nativity scene from a public park in Woodland, Washington, on Tuesday after receiving several complaints that a Christian display was featured on public property.

The crucifix and nativity cribs are symbols of Italian history, tradition, and faith, so it “is right that they are displayed in the classroom”, the Education Ministry has stressed, after it emerged that some schools were blocking Christmas displays “out of respect for other cultures”.

To celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ, the Robious Middle School in Midlothian, Virginia, has banned the singing of any Christmas carols that mention the name of Jesus.

An Idaho family won $75,000 in a religious discrimination lawsuit against a homeowners’ association (HOA) after the couple claimed the HOA tried to stop them from hosting a five-day Christmas event which drew thousands of people to their home.

Organisers of the Christmas Market in Bruges have defended their decision to rebrand the medieval city’s popular event as a ‘Winter Market’ after outcry on social media called the move an attack on Belgian traditions and culture.

Christmas is a time where Christians pick on Muslims in the United Kingdon, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown claimed Friday in the International Business Times. Decrying “Muslim panic stories”, Alibhai-Brown wrote: Every year, in the lead up to Christmas, tabloids run turkey (that is, dumb

A 600-year-old school in Germany has ditched Christmas celebrations during class time after a Muslim pupil said that carols were incompatible with Islam.

CNN’s relentless campaign to destroy the innocence of young children marched on this weekend with a lengthy Sunday morning New Day segment promoting children’s book that depicts Santa Claus as a homosexual who is married to another man.

President Donald Trump famously declared that “we’re saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.” With Christmas less than two weeks away, however, numerous major retailers have decided to forgo saying “Merry Christmas” altogether or are sticking with the politically correct “Happy Holidays” greeting. But a nonprofit group dedicated to combatting political correctness and protecting religious freedoms is fighting back with a new initiative called Bring Back Christmas. Their goal: urge retailers to return Christmas to its rightful place in American culture.

A bishop in the north of Italy has sharply criticized the placement of the Virgin Mary and the Baby Jesus in a migrant dinghy rather than a traditional manger in the town Nativity scene.

The German supermarket chain Penny has introduced a new LGBT Santa Claus chocolate figure in rainbow colors just in time for the Christmas holidays.

British city Hull has followed the growing European trend of dressing up anti-terror barriers as fun Christmas decorations in an effort to hide the “ugly barriers”, as the continent entrenches itself against a spate of radical Islamist terror attacks.

Google Trends shows that searches for the word “Christmas” are on the rise for 2016 in comparison to previous years.

A humanist, atheist organization is demanding that a local Texas courthouse remove a Christmas nativity scene display, saying it unconstitutionally endorses Christianity. The organization claims the nativity was bought with taxpayer dollars and clearly endorses the Christian faith.