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 ...

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

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 ...

There’s been a lot of talk from President-elect Donald Trump and other elected officials about plans to deport large numbers ...

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

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 ...

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.

The criticisms are based on the argument that Mary and Joseph, and their son Jesus, a Jewish man born in Bethlehem, were, in fact, Palestinian. Some critics of the Netflix casting are concerned ...

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 ...

Tinsley: It is the day after Christmas. The house is littered with boxes, scraps of wrapping paper and strands of ribbon.