Christmas brings the “promise of the resurrection, that death is not the end”, the President of Spain's capital region said in a speech.

Without context, God’s epoch-defining intervention in human history to rescue and transform the world, is turned into an anodyne children’s story.

“At Christmas, our attention is drawn to the birth of a baby. Billions of people now follow his teaching and find in him the guiding light for their lives. I am one of them.”

“If you're feeling rejected, excluded, a stranger / remember the one who came down to the manger”. A Christmas story by Speak Life.

From the Annunciation to the Nativity. London artist David Holmes illustrated the UK Royal Mail stamps which will be on sale soon.