Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...

We know from the Gospel sources that Mary and Joseph lived in the tiny Galilean village of Nazareth and that this is probably where Jesus grew up. Unlike Bethlehem, this village had no prophetic ...

It is supposed to be a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ but we get ... said the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, so that’s where Mary and Joseph had to go. As we think about the ...

In an advertisement for New Testament retelling “the Greatest Story Ever Told,” survivalist Bear Grylls called Mary a ...

However, many historians and archaeologists believe that Jesus was not born ... the Gospel of Luke states that Mary and Joseph traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be counted in a Roman census.

British adventurer Bear Grylls is facing criticism after referring to Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a Palestinian refugee in ...

WHEN Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem more than two thousand years ago, it was a miracle that he and his mother survived. It was not a happy birth. Saint Luke tells us that it was an awful ...

He was to be named Jesus because he would save his people ... a census should be taken of the entire Roman world, Joseph took Mary to Bethlehem to be counted. While there, Joseph made sure his ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...

Moravians relate to the story of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, Rice said ... Its lyrics say: “Not Jerusalem — lowly Bethlehem ‘twas that gave us Christ to save us.” Thus inspired, Zinzendorf ...