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 ...
Scientists and historians are raising fresh questions over the long-held belief that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea. Recent archaeological findings and scholarly debates suggest that the ...
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 ...