The smallness of God in the Eucharist and in the manger is a scandal. The all-powerful One becomes so small that he can be ...

This Christmas I find myself wondering yet again about those Bethlehem shepherds. It’s possible, of course, that the Almighty chose these particular sheepherders as recipients of the angelic ...

The story of Bethlehem, shepherds, wise men, and a manger may have only emerged later as Christians tried to tie Jesus' story into an ancient Jewish prophecy. Instead, some experts suggest that ...

In Victorian days, Rice said, Bethlehem's residents would "go putzing ... to display the dozens of wooden figures — angels, shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny landscape decorated ...

our tour bus had to clear an Israeli checkpoint just to get to Bethlehem, a Palestinian town in the West Bank situated south of Jerusalem (a 30-minute drive away). As the morning mist receded, we came ...

Moravian missionaries named the Pennsylvania city of Bethlehem after the biblical birthplace of Jesus on Christmas Eve in 1741 ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP ... she drew a curtain to display the dozens of wooden figures — angels, shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny landscape decorated with pebbles, wood and moss.

Among our stops was the West Bank (Palestinian) city of Bethlehem, today a city of 220,000 ... now known as the Shepherd’s Field, commemorating the shepherds who the New Testament says were ...

The Southeast Missourian shares the timeless Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke, recounting the humble birth of Jesus in Bethlehem and the angelic announcement to shepherds, bringing peace ...