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“When a foreigner resides among you, do not mistreat them” and “Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers” were parts of the many biblical verses inscribed on handheld signs as around 100 people ...

The Jefferson City community's annual Journey to Bethlehem begins Wednesday. The nativity event is to be held each evening through Friday. Presented at Capital City Christian Church, 1608 Swifts ...

Around this time of year, I start seeing posts on social media about how Jesus was a refugee, an asylum seeker, an immigrant, etc. It’s based upon a version of the Nativity story, where the Holy ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Police say a woman stole baby Jesus from a Nativity scene in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and dropped the figurine off at a hospital with a note explaining that the baby had been ...

My husband and I traveled to Bethlehem. My first vivid memory of the place is of Star Street, which is traditionally acknowledged as the final portion of Mary and Joseph’s journey into town. As Claude ...

Every year at Christmas, the hilltop town of Bethlehem comes alive with holiday cheer. Parades light up the cobblestone alleyways around the Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where Jesus ...

We’re in the final week of Advent. Two weeks away, we reflected how Mary, in her first trimester, “hastened” to Ein Karem to help Elizabeth, in her third trimester. John the Baptist is now almost six ...

When we celebrate a feast like the Nativity of Mary, marking an event such as Mary’s own birth that must have happened but that is not independently narrated in Scripture, the lectionary selections ...

We live at a time in which Christmas crèches have become so much a part of Catholic piety that many believe that they must have existed from the first centuries of Christianity. But they are an ...