A cave in Israel once thought to be linked to Jesus may in fact be the burial place of another person from his time: Salome, the sister of the Judaean king Herod the Great, a new study finds. The idea ...

Even the Gospels that claim Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea cannot agree ... Oshri discovered a large Byzantine-era church with a hidden cave, sections of a wall around the village, and ...

Bethlehem, West Bank • There ... goats or cattle could fit inside the tiny cave that is believed by many Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus. That’s because they would be squeezed out ...

However, if Jesus wasn't born in Bethlehem of Judea ... he found a massive Byzantine-era church with a hidden cave, parts of a wall around the village, and a two-story building that could be ...

Scripture had said the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem ... the world was possibly born in a stable or cave (Luke 2:7). There was no room for Jesus at the inn, just like there’s no room ...

Since at least the 2nd century AD people have believed that the place where the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, now stands is where Jesus was born. One particular cave, over which the first Church ...

The cave’s roof is a geographical map of Gaza. Its shape, together with a depiction of an explosion, form a star, inspired by the Star of Bethlehem that led the Magi to Jesus’s birth.

In a normal year, he said, pilgrims and tourists would wait in multiple lines for hours to see the cave in which Jesus is said to have been born. There are 78 hotels and 5,700 rooms in Bethlehem ...

The story of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem has a special resonance with ... He refuses to give up hope, taking inspiration from the cave underneath the church where a silver 14-pointed star ...

In the cave of Greccio ... Magi and animals adored in Bethlehem, and the Eucharistic Jesus that the Church in heaven and on earth continues to worship on the altar. As Pope Francis wrote in ...

Farther along the cave’s path, she and Joseph pause on their way to an inn in Bethlehem. And then, the climax of the Christmas story: baby Jesus is born. This scene is particularly apt, Tom said.