An estimated 2 billion people celebrate Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival. The 15-day festival begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar, sometime between ...

Most New Year's Eve menus in Japan will include toshikoshi ... when the "common class developed customary religious and superstitious rituals." When making toshikoshi soba, it is just as important ...

met with a delegation from the Christian community in Damascus on New Year's Eve, local media reported. The meeting included religious officials representing various Christian churches ...