Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...
Did Joseph and Mary really need to go to Bethlehem because of a Roman census, or is this unhistorical, as some scholars ...
The star is mentioned twice, and the text implies the first sighting was at the time of Jesus's birth.
We string our lights, trim our trees, talk about the holiday, hear recorded songs mentioning the birth of Jesus... But how ...
The Massacre of the Innocents is a biblical event in which King Herod orders the execution of all male children in Bethlehem.
A church whose congregation has roots in the 19th century is closing and donating hundreds of thousands of dollars from the ...
Jesus and Augustus
Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...
“We might wonder why setting up a putz and telling the story of Jesus’ birth is so important to the Moravians, and now to the city of Bethlehem,” Rice says in the recording. “One reason ...
In a Christmas sermon, Palestinian Rev. Munther Isaac called out Western churches’ complicity in Israel’s assault.