In A.D. 614, the Persians, who razed many other churches during wars with Byzantium, spared the Church of the Nativity, supposedly out of respect for a mosaic of the Magi shown wearing Persian attire.

Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, erected in the 4th century on the spot where some Christians believe Jesus Christ was born, showed off newly restored mosaics and frescoes ahead of Christmas.

A church was first completed there in ad 339 and the edifice that replaced it after a fire in the 6th century retains elaborate floor mosaics from the original ... that the place where the Church of ...

The patriarch walked the last stretch of the way to the Church of the Nativity. He was received by Christian representatives. Due to the war in Gaza, which has been going on for a year and a half ...

Santa Maria Maggiore, the Roman basilica that houses an ancient mosaic of the Epiphany, boasts several ties to early Nativity scenes. According to Berliner, papal records indicate the church ...

Show more The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is on the site believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ. But in 2002, it was at the centre of one of the most dramatic sieges ...