Christmas Eve 2018 marks bicentennial of the classic carol. Silent Night Memorial Chapel in the Austrian village of Oberndorf stands on the original site of St. Nicholas Church, where the Christmas ...

I’d expect a typical pipe organ repairer to sport a handlebar mustache, wear Pince-nez glasses and push upward of 60. Shocked was I to greet a trinity of 22-year-olds who could have been their own ...

What would a Christmas celebration, church service or caroling event be without hearing the soft and sweet tones of “Silent Night?” This year marks the 200th anniversary of when the beloved carol was ...

On Christmas Eve in 1818, two men with a small guitar entered a church in Oberndorf, Austria, and prepared to sing a new Christmas carol. Times had been bad in Oberndorf, where many people worked on ...

(RNS) — For countless churchgoers, 'Silent Night' brings a moment of quiet reflection that captures what Christmas is all about — even if church mice have nothing to do with it. (RNS) — It was the ...