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

Joseph next appears in the Nativity Story as he and Mary travel to Bethlehem ... However, Jesus being the son of Joseph, a carpenter, does give us insight into his socio-economic background. The Greek ...

And not just as a baby ... Jesus was not born in a chalet or in a palace, or in a large city like Rome or Athens, but born instead in some forgotten little one-camel town called Bethlehem.

Everyone loves Christ in the cradle. The image of baby Jesus in the Bethlehem barn warms our hearts. Each December we recreate the moment on our lawns and beneath our Christmas trees. Stores sell ...

While it is taken as given that Jesus was born on Christmas Day in the town of Bethlehem, this account likely doesn't match the historical reality. In fact, many historians and archaeologists don ...

The interior of the Milk Grotto in Bethlehem. In the background, the most well-known ... the Virgin Mary was nursing the baby Jesus here and when, in haste to flee to Egypt, she took him off ...

designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. “Dressing baby Jesus in a keffiyeh is not only a cynical ...

as compared with the fixed background stars). By the earliest time the men could have arrived in Bethlehem, the baby Jesus would likely have been at least a toddler. Matthew wrote to convince his ...

Mary and the Baby Jesus. Hopefully, the other seven episodes will have the same attitude. MOVIEGUIDE® will keep readers and listeners posted. Naturally, of course, we encourage everyone to study the ...

For the last several years, Pope Francis has been trying to lead people to Greccio, through Greccio to Bethlehem, through Bethlehem to the Baby Jesus and ... to the background of their life.

That could potentially explain the Star of Bethlehem. But ... Once they arrive, they inquire about baby Jesus with Herod, the region’s ruler appointed by Rome. “Where is the child who has ...

Some may object to depicting Jesus as anything other than a brown male born into a Jewish family in Bethlehem of Judea ... Whatever the motive or religious background of the artist, visual ...