We see Oisin and Alice standing on a desert road beside a sign leading to Bethlehem. * NARRATOR: Today we are going to learn about the birth of Jesus! Cut to the interior of the stable as Mary ...

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 ... of Christ’s birth, hard times ...

Matthew's gospel suggests that the holy family lived in Bethlehem and only moved later to flee King Herod's massacre of the innocents after Jesus' birth. Luke, on the other hand, gives us the ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images ...

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.” ...

Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was ... of Christ’s birth, hard times ...

Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to ...