(MENAFN) Lent is underway in the Christian world ... which would fix holidays to the modern calendar while keeping Easter on the Julian system. Though it may seem complicated, transitioning ...

Last year, theater owners and industry professionals wrung their hands as Memorial Day box office performance tanked. This ...

President Marcos has declared June 6 a regular holiday nationwide in observance of Eid’l Adha or the Feast of Sacrifice, one ...

Three senators on Tuesday submitted a landmark bill to the Liberian Senate seeking to establish both Christian and Muslim holy days as official national holidays--marking a bold attempt to quell ...

Anna Jarvis spearheaded the effort to make Mother's Day a national holiday, she later grew to despise the holiday for being overly commercialized.

The UK has a handful of bank holidays throughout the year but why do two take place in May each year? Here's the history behind them.

St George's Day should be made into a public holiday, according to leaders at Norfolk County Council. Senior Conservatives at County Hall are pushing for the government to make April 23 a bank holiday ...

Eventually, many states in the US institutionalized Mother's Day in their calendars. Jarvis's efforts finally bore ... on the last Sunday of May unless it coincided with the Christian holiday of ...

From four-day grand prix weekends to having its own broadcaster, the Monaco Grand Prix has had several unique traditions that ...