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This season marks the fifth year Latter-day Saints have participated in the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade.

Meeting in Cape Coast, Ghana, members of the Church sing and serve to launch #LightTheWorld.

With song, dance and story-telling, members of the Church in San Juan Light the World and look forward to a new temple.

The Asia Area Christmas Devotional features music and video presentations from nine countries. Watch it here.

This episode of the Church News podcast features a professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University offering historical insights and biblical context on Bethlehem.

See the unwrapping celebrations as the 2022 Giving Machines open in 28 locations across the U.S. and around the world for #LightTheWorld.

Latter-day Saints in Colombia and Ecuador launched their #LightTheWorld initiatives with songs and dances representing their countries’ cultures.

Historical records, archaeological discoveries and the natural geography of the region can greatly increase understanding of the first Christmas, wrote BYU professor Matthew J. Grey.

Efforts included service projects in Nicaragua, a dinner program in El Salvador and awards ceremonies in Honduras.

The Mariano Rivera Foundation seeks to give educational opportunities to children in need.

Consider Christmas symbols, look at them differently and find links to the Savior.

One week before Christmas Day, President Russell M. Nelson extends the invitation to lift, love and serve others as a way to reflect the light of the Savior.

Sir David Suchet, a guest artist for the Tabernacle Choir’s Christmas concert, shares the Christmas story in Luke 2 during this week’s “Music & the Spoken Word.”

Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert guest artists Lea Salonga felt “enveloped” by sound, actor Sir David Suchet said it was terrifying to see the Conference Center, and Nick Winton on sharing his father’s experience help children escape World War II.

“Covenant keepers are entitled to a special kind of rest that comes to them through their covenantal relationship with God,” President Nelson has declared.

Nativities from around the world are on display at the Washington D.C. Temple Visitors’ Center.

Singer Lea Salonga’s voice soared through the Conference Center and narrator actor Sir David Suchet introduced a surprise guest during the Tabernacle Choir’s 2022 Christmas concert.

Activities included serving cancer patients, providing food to those in need, singing Christmas music and a torchlight parade.

The Bellevue Festival of the Nativity helped people begin the season with a focus on Jesus Christ.

“O Holy Night” will premiere on PBS starting Dec. 13 and shown on BYUtv starting Dec. 18.

The new-for-2022 Christmas program features European performers, European carols, narration, animation and video illustrations.

Instead of a calendar, people can ask themselves, “How would the Savior reach out and help people?” said Elder Bassett.

How Charles Dickens wrote “A Christmas Carol,” a tale of redemption and compassion that would become a classic, Lloyd Newell shares in this week’s “Music & the Spoken Word” with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.

“Christmas is a time to ... de-emphasize differences among people,” President Dallin H. Oaks said.

British actor Sir David Suchet, known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot, will narrate the choir’s Christmas concert.

Volunteers of all ages performed a living re-creation of the story of Christ’s birth in cherished community tradition, now in its 25th year.

Members worked to “make Hemet heaven again” with interfaith JustServe projects.

The annual Christmas program features European performers, European carols, narration, animation and video illustrations.

Diplomats from 40 countries joined Latter-day Saint leaders to kick off the month-long Christmas event.

Elder W. Mark Bassett, a General Authority Seventy, and Aaron Hall of the Missionary Department join the Church News podcast to share behind-the-scenes details of the Light the World initiative.