Posadas are central to Christmas season in Mexico. Literally, the word means an inn. Posadas are part of a centurieslong tradition that recreates Mary and Joseph's search for a place where the ...

For weeks Indians had been filling the markets of Mexico City with Christmas goods. Over the mountains from Toluca and Puebla they had come dogtrotting, their backs piled high with big clay pots ...

Mexico, in 2000. He said as the city’s Latino community has grown, the practice of Las Posadas has become more “multicultural,” incorporating Christmas traditions and songs from Puerto Rico, Venezuela ...

During a posada before or on Christmas, loved ones gather around and sing ... a town in the state of Mexico that claims to be where the tradition of posadas and, by extension, piñata making originated ...

For many, the Guadalupe-Reyes Marathon represents the whole Mexican Christmas season ... Marathon shifts into high gear with Las Posadas, a beloved tradition that reenacts Mary and Joseph ...

At the heart of a celebration hosted by the Church of Scientology Los Angeles this Christmas season was a miracle: the apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Each year, Mexican communities at home ...

Posadas are part of a centuries-long tradition that recreates Mary and Joseph's search for a place where the baby Jesus could be born. But in Mexico City, they have become just a reason to party.