There is no guiding star in Luke’s story, nor do the shepherds bring gifts to baby Jesus. Luke also mentions that Joseph, Mary and Jesus leave Bethlehem eight days after his birth and travel to ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh ...

There is no guiding star in Luke’s story, nor do the shepherds bring gifts to baby Jesus. Luke also mentions that Joseph, Mary and Jesus leave Bethlehem eight days after his birth and travel to ...

Although Bethlehem is located in modern-day Palestine, Jesus was very much not ... the story of a Jewish girl giving birth to a very special Jewish baby in a manger in the Jewish town of Bethlehem.

Volunteers from several churches and the surrounding community bring Bethlehem to life on the night that baby Jesus was born ... will not mention the birth of Jesus, because, on that historic ...

Jesus’ first followers ... quiet fields of Bethlehem.” The ancient city represents “ground zero for a new birth,” Sadleir says, “a universal desire we all seek.” ...

(RNS) — The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common ... a crèche Saturday (Dec. 7) by two Bethlehem-based artists, featuring a baby Jesus nestled in a keffiyeh. The pontiff declared ...

The creche at a landmark Lutheran church in Bethlehem, West Bank, features baby Jesus surrounded by jagged ... as marking the place of Christ’s birth, hard times have helped dampen tensions ...