There are so many wonderful details in the Epiphany story: the call of the Gentiles, their enthusiastic response, the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — I discovered first ... Two knelt at the slab of rock where Jesus’ body was believed to have been anointed before his burial and kissed the artifact in intense prayer.

Scholars believe Jesus was born between 6 and 4 BCE in the town of Bethlehem, located in the modern ... began shining like the sun and his entire body glowed with a white light.

The Cologne Cathedral houses the Shrine of the Three Kings, a reliquary which tradition says holds the bones of the Biblical ...

Christmas is a birthday party,” says Ashley, age 11. “It’s Jesus’ birthday. At my church, we get a big birthday cake for ...

Over the centuries, the Christmas story has been re-cast and romanticized into a kind of Christian “mythology.” But what do ...

He noted that the main entrance of the Basilica of the Nativity, built at the birthplace of Jesus in Bethlehem ... God and start living from him — the Body and Blood of the Lord, the source ...

Her body is cut into 12 pieces ... The town was not quiet or silent the night Jesus was born, but overcrowded and anxious and militarized. In two years, Bethlehem would be the site of widespread ...

Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac stood beside this rubble-manger on Dec. 23, 2023, in Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Christmas service. Then, he spoke eloquently and passionately about if Jesus w ...

Palestinian Christians parade through the streets of Bethlehem at Christmas ... which commemorates the anointing of Jesus’ body for burial. Today, on my Easter visit, I find myself inside ...

The Magi are taken home, avoiding Herod, who is planning to kill the child. Herod is jealous of this child from Bethlehem. He ...