Lauded in the world’s two largest religions as the mother of God’s Chosen One—for Muslims a great prophet and for Christians ...

that attracts pilgrims to the sites and story of the newborn Jesus. These holy sites “draw Christians as a presence of a positive future, like Mary in Bethlehem,” says Sadleir, a guide who has ...

Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at ... to assassinate all young children. Matthew also says that after Herod dies from an illness, Joseph, Mary and Jesus do not return to Bethlehem.

“They wanted to know that all of those children were of that father ... an open trough used to feed the animals. Mary had given birth to Jesus in Bethlehem, marking what would be celebrated ...

However, whether you're singing 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' or dressing your child ... suggest that Jesus could have been born in a second Bethlehem just 4 miles (7km) away from Mary and David's ...

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

Mary being sinless or Jesus being God doesn’t make her understandable, utterly normal reaction as a mother looking for her child (for three days!) any different. She was a human being with the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — At ... orders that all male children under 2 be killed: the Slaughter of the Innocents. Jesus, Mary and Joseph flee to Egypt. “So the story is Jesus is born into ...

Scientists and historians are raising fresh questions over the long-held belief that Jesus was born ... of Luke states that Mary and Joseph traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be counted ...

So Mary experiences the birth of her first child not only with Joseph to help but surrounded ... makes it easy for people to misunderstand who the original witnesses to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem ...

Journey to Bethlehem is the "origin story" of Mary (Fiona Palomo) and Joseph (Milo Manheim) as they fall in love and deal with the fallout of God choosing her to carry his son Jesus, through the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Jack Giacaman ... At his shop, a small group of artisans are hard at work, shaping statues of Mary and the infant Jesus and stamping out Christmas tree ornaments, all ...