BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ...

Had Jesus been born in the era of the America police state, rather than traveling to Bethlehem for a census, Jesus’ parents would have been mailed a 28-page American Community Survey, a ...

What did childbirth look like when Jesus was born? The story of Jesus’ birth is celebrated, manger and all. But historical texts suggest deliveries during that time were surprisingly hygienic.

Following the unveiling of a nativity scene featuring the baby Jesus lying in a manger draped with a Palestinian keffiyeh, the Vatican chose on Wednesday to remove the display due to significant ...

One aspect of Matthew’s story that is indisputably historic is the way the Herodian dynasty forms the backdrop to the birth, life, and death of Jesus. Born around 73 B.C., Herod began his career ...

According to Micah 5:2 and Jewish tradition, the Messiah (the Christ) would be born in Bethlehem, a small town near Jerusalem. Luke 2 informs us that Mary and Joseph traveled to the town for a census ...

At the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, baby Jesus lies not in a manger but draped in a keffiyeh amid rubble. As the world celebrates the joyous festival, Bethlehem mourns. Rev.

Luke traces Jesus’ ancestry through Adam to God. Both the Gospels state that Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary, his betrothed, in Bethlehem, and both support the doctrine of the virgin birth of Jesus, ...

Baby Jesus was placed not on a bed of straw, but in the middle of debris, echoing the images of Palestinian babies rescued after Israeli bombardment in Gaza, on October 7. Bethlehem’s debris Nativity ...

We’re broken by these images,” said the Rev. Munther Isaac, the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church who created the crèche. “God is under the rubble in Gaza, this is where ...