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 ...

And Joseph also went up from Galilee ... that she delivered the baby Jesus as soon as they arrived in Bethlehem (like all the movies assume). All we know from these two verses is that 1) she ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem ... visit, Joseph has a dream where he is warned of Herod’s attempt to kill baby Jesus.

Bethlehem, West Bank • There are painted angels, shepherds and kings above the small altar and a 14-point star on the marble floor below, but there’s no way that sheep, goats or cattle could ...

Every March 19th, the Catholic Church honors St. Joseph, who, according to the Holy Scriptures, was entrusted by God with the ...

We know from the Gospel sources that Mary and Joseph lived in the tiny Galilean village of Nazareth and that this is probably where Jesus grew up. Unlike Bethlehem, this village had no prophetic ...

including the one from Bethlehem. On that day, the Pope had been photographed praying before Mary, Saint Joseph, and the Baby Jesus, placed on a prominent kefiah. The image immediately attracted ...

The baby Jesus sat amid flickering ... In the Gospel of Matthew, Joseph, a Jewish man living in Palestine under Roman rule, is forced to report to Bethlehem for a census. He takes his young ...

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