Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction. Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy ...

Jesus was born to a family from a village called Nazareth, near the Sea of Galilee ... thousands of years of social tradition. Trouble in Jerusalem In around 33 AD, Jesus traveled to the city ...

Hordes of tourists and pilgrims are a common sight outside Bethlehem’s Church ... the birth of Jesus Christ. As the war between Israel and Hamas rages around 100km (60 miles) away in Gaza ...

which refers to the lineage through which Jesus of Nazareth descended. Set in 1000 BC, the historical drama depicts the story of a young shepherd and outcast who goes up against a Philistine giant and ...

Not everyone welcomes Jesus enthusiastically into Jerusalem. After celebrating the Last Supper, Judas betrays Jesus, who is taken for trial to Pontius Pilate and subsequently condemned to death.

"We went to all these places that we read about in the Bible: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem and the Galilee," Wood said. "I felt like I was walking in the footsteps of Jesus and the Apostles." ...

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Mary is visited by the angel Gabriel, who tells her she will bear the Son of God. Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem to take part in Herod's census, where Jesus is born.