Volunteers work to create a scene in Bethlehem ... baby Jesus,” she said. The tour then leads to a shepherd’s field, where a choir of angels is proclaiming the good news of Jesus’ birth ...

Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ... by Christians as marking the place of Christ’s birth, hard times have helped ...

Some scholars argue that the emphasis on Bethlehem as Jesus's birthplace ... is "not a single ancient source" that could place the birth of Jesus in this location. Despite the debates, some ...

Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to ...

To complicate matters further, Dr Dahari dismisses Bethlehem in the Galilee as the place of Jesus’s birth too. The church found in the Galilean Bethlehem was “just a basilica church”, he ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh ...

Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to ...