A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...

The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled ...

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"So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was ...

This is Italian artist Giorgione's painting "The Adoration of the Shepherds" depicting the newborn Jesus with the shepherds and Joseph and Mary at a manger in Bethlehem. Giorgione lived from 1477-1510 ...

Another Christmas in the bag. Another round of wrapped boxes deconstructed. Another season saturated in the story of a baby ...

As for the name “Palestine,” it was not used in any widespread way to describe the land of Israel until 135 AD – in other ...

“When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with their flocks, the work of Christmas begins: to find the ...