Days ahead of Christmas, when the world celebrates the birth of Jesus, scientists have raised a question over something believed for centuries that Christ was born in Bethlehem. This is not the ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago.

Based on that evidence, Dr Billington says he is 'convinced that Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem in Judea.' In terms of archaeology, evidence is scant, but researchers have at least found ...

All the Palestinian churches have cancelled Christmas festivities this year, and one church in Bethlehem shares its pain through iconography. Bethlehem's Lutheran Church decided its Christmas ...

Instead of the usual light-filled celebrations in the town where the Gospels say Christ was born, the municipality of Bethlehem is offering a vigil called “Nativity under the rubble” in ...

All have an image of their own “Christ,” she says, and they can find how “he was born in us” anywhere — including in downtown Bethlehem. Editor’s note • This story is available to ...

“If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble in Gaza,” Isaac said in his address during the “Christ in the ... this be our fate in Bethlehem?” Isaac acknowledged ...

The tiny babies lay in their incubators in Holy Family Hospital in Bethlehem ... for survival is harder in the land where Christ himself was born 2,000 years ago. Thankfully, dire cases are ...

“If Jesus were to be born today ... Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, delivering his Christmas sermon on Saturday. He titled it “Christ in the Rubble.” Coming up, Reverend Isaac ...

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank — This year, Bethlehem is sombre and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and there are no holiday lights or tourists to see them. Instead, the city of Jesus’s birth ...

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