The little town of Bethlehem has cancelled ... subterranean cave where a 14-point silver star on the marble floor marks the site of Jesus’s birth. Christmas Eve midnight mass is at the 19th ...

Christmas is an equal opportunity holiday. It's celebrated in churches, homes, town squares, and on TV. And it's celebrated in less likely places, too. For instance: your local planetarium.

The "Christmas Star" may have historically ... Religious texts give reports of a particular star, the Star of Bethlehem, which guided the prophets and religious philosophers of the time, Throop ...

ASHEVILLE - The Christmas Star set high in the Bethlehem sky offering guidance in the biblical account of Christ’s birth proves to be a pinnacle of hope in Asheville’s history and today.

A Christmas installation ... particularly in Bethlehem. 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 ...

The town has had a massive Christmas star set up on a nearby mountain since the late 1930s, a five-pointed star with eight rays. The structure is located at Bethlehem’s highest point — 890 ...

walked along Star Street to the Basilica of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, on Dec. 24, 2023, during the solemn entrance in celebration of Christmas. At his side was Cardinal Konrad Krajewski ...

And with the town’s record of not only the Bethlehem star, but also the first documented Christmas tree in the nation, and Christmas markets on both sides of the bustling town’s river ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank >> The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town Sunday after Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war.

Jupiter and Saturn came together in a “Great Conjunction” in 2020 that was unlike any seen in nearly 800 years. The two planets appeared so close together in Earth’s night sky on the winter ...

The war in Gaza has prompted the city, traditionally seen as the birthplace of Jesus, to tone down its Christmas celebrations ... arrives in Bethlehem, he will walk down Star Street, the ...