According to the Christmas story, Mary was forced to give birth to Jesus in a stable because there was no room at the inn. Today, nearly all of Bethlehem’s 5,500 hotel rooms are empty.

Unable to find lodgings — there’s no room at the inn — they settle in a stable ... cave in which Jesus is said to have been born. There are 78 hotels and 5,700 rooms in Bethlehem today.

However, many historians and archaeologists believe that Jesus was not born in Bethlehem of Judea ... of Nazareth' and that Nazareth is the most stable feature in the biblical narrative of ...

streets were deserted and stores were shuttered on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank city where Christian tradition says Jesus was born in a stable 2,000 years ago.

Most years Bethlehem basks in the central place it holds in the Christian story of Jesus' life, born there in a stable because there was no room for his parents at the inn, and placed in an animal ...

busy night in Bethlehem.' Jesus was not born on a 'silent night' There was no 'little donkey' In fact, there were no animals at all There was no inn keeper or stable There may not have been three ...

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 ...

For Mary and Joseph, this meant traveling to Bethlehem, where they found no room at the inn and had to settle for a stable to ...

After consulting with King Herod of Judea, the men followed the star to Bethlehem, where they found the newborn baby Jesus. While the historicity of this event is difficult to verify, it raises a ...