By Dr. Evelyn Uddin-Khan Earlier this year, two world leaders — with personal criminal records — announced that they would take over Gaza and turn it into a “Riviera” on the Mediterranean Coast.

For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Christians would flock to the Cave of Salome in Israel to pay tribute to Jesus' midwife. But a new study contests the ...

the stories create a radiant image of a young couple giving birth to the son of God in Bethlehem. The Christian world has embraced the faithful story of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus for centuries.

In the last few decades, that knowledge has taken a back seat to the hustle and bustle of shopping, parties and Santa Claus. Even the "comfort and joy" heralded is more about general feelings of ...

Colorful lights are everywhere—a reminder of a new star in the eastern sky, announcing the birth of a baby boy to a teenaged virgin ... it is fairly remarkable that Christianity’s images of a Baby ...

A keffiyeh-wrapped Baby Jesus in nativity ... images of Christ’s birth. This provocative symbol brings attention to the political realities of modern-day Bethlehem and the ongoing conflict ...

Although Bethlehem is located in modern-day Palestine, Jesus was very much not ... the story of a Jewish girl giving birth to a very special Jewish baby in a manger in the Jewish town of Bethlehem.

in which the baby is added on Christmas Eve night to mark the moment of Jesus’s birth. The manger scene had only been installed in full for the purposes of demonstration during the public unveiling.

The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight ... Even Pope Francis was presented a crèche December 7 by two Bethlehem-based artists, featuring a baby Jesus nestled in a ...