Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...

We string our lights, trim our trees, talk about the holiday, hear recorded songs mentioning the birth of Jesus... But how ...

The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual ...

Did Joseph and Mary really need to go to Bethlehem because of a Roman census, or is this unhistorical, as some scholars ...

A church whose congregation has roots in the 19th century is closing and donating hundreds of thousands of dollars from the ...

Today, more than two millennia after Augustus forced a poor family on a journey to Bethlehem, billions of people around the ...

Hundreds gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank as the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy ...

The Massacre of the Innocents is a biblical event in which King Herod orders the execution of all male children in Bethlehem.

The star is mentioned twice, and the text implies the first sighting was at the time of Jesus's birth.

At Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, residents and businesses are facing the effects of ...

“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 ...

Later during the Christmas season, you might want to watch the 1949 film Come to the Stable that tells the story of Regina ...