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.
While it is taken as given that Jesus was born on Christmas Day in the town of Bethlehem, this account likely doesn't match the historical reality. In fact, many historians and archaeologists don ...
A church whose congregation has roots in the 19th century is closing and donating hundreds of thousands of dollars from 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.
We string our lights, trim our trees, talk about the holiday, hear recorded songs mentioning the birth of Jesus... But how ...