Advent is four weeks long and marks the beginning of the Christian year. The first Sunday of Advent is always four Sundays before Christmas, which means it could be as early as 27 November.

Although nowadays Easter eggs are widely on sale well before Easter, as a Christian penitential season, Lent has not suffered the full fate of its sister, Advent. Society at large, as well as in ...

Turkey's Hagia Sophia will open to visitors outside prayer times and its Christian icons will remain, religious officials said on Tuesday, after a court ruling paved the way for it to become a mosque.