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

Askarieh also raised concerns about rising extremism in the region. For example, in Syria, the small Christian community may ...

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

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

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 ...

Faith leaders and residents in Bethlehem are grappling with how to mark the festive holiday while fellow Palestinians ...

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