Professor Bond says that although Jesus was very likely to have been born in Nazareth, the fact that the Bible focuses on Bethlehem is just as important to know. She concludes: 'It's better I ...

So when was Jesus ... “Bethlehem the town of David” to register for a census decreed by Caesar Augustus. “While they were there,” the Bible says, “the time came for the baby to be born.” ...

Days ahead of Christmas, when the world celebrates the birth of Jesus, scientists have raised a question over something believed for centuries that Christ was born in Bethlehem. This is not the ...

The boys will hold aloft Bible verses on peace and ... reality — then and now — in a very powerful way.” “If Jesus were born today,” he said, “he would be born in Gaza amid the ...

The tale of how his parents, Mary and Joseph, travelled to Bethlehem under the ... marks the spot many claim Jesus was actually born, and Tom Meyer, a Bible professor from California's Shasta ...

"But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah ... This Old Testament Bible verse is joyous in tone and foretells something momentous coming forth from a relatively small dot on the map of Israel, faith leaders ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

Scientists and historians are raising fresh questions over the long-held belief that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea. Recent archaeological findings and scholarly debates suggest that the ...

(Luke 2:1-6) So if we are to read this correctly — and who wants to mess up the Bible ... went to Bethlehem for what appears to be mundane and pragmatic reasons. Jesus was born in Bethlehem ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images ...