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

Scripture had said the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem, so that’s where Mary ... There was no room for Jesus at the inn, just like there’s no room for Him in some people’s lives today.

Scientists and historians are raising fresh questions over the long-held belief that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea. Recent archaeological findings and scholarly debates suggest that the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927.

Orthodox Christians have gathered in Bethlehem this week, the city recognised as the birthplace of Jesus, to mark Christmas.

On the Solemnity of the Epiphany, Pope Francis said Christians should seek “to recognize Jesus close to us,” including in the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ...

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

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 ...

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

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual trappings of the city's favorite holiday ...