Sitting high atop South Mountain, the lone star peeking out ... to the schoolchildren. Live Nativity and Christmas liturgy at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania(Photo: Courtesy ...

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank — This year, Bethlehem is sombre and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and there ... a bombed-out version of the traditional nativity cave, which many Christians ...

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 ...

Vinh said he always comes to Bethlehem to mark Christmas, but this year was especially sobering. He gazed at a nativity scene in Manger Square with a baby Jesus wrapped in a white shroud ...

Everyone knows the nativity ... a bright star in the east. Go outside after sunset this month and look to the east, and yes, there it is – the Star of Bethlehem! The Christmas Star!

Christmas is a very special celebration for Ticos (Costa Ricans, as most of the readers of the Tico Times already know, are affectionately known as Ticos). Traditional food, gatherings with friends ...

Another factor giving the 2020 event religious overtones is the fact it occurred on the winter solstice — in other words, right before Christmas ... Star of Bethlehem leading the Magi to the ...

The little town of Bethlehem ... Nativity, a few steps below the chancel is a small subterranean cave where a 14-point silver star on the marble floor marks the site of Jesus’s birth. Christmas ...

The star is one of the most iconic symbols of Christmas, often found atop Christmas trees, in festive decorations, and depicted in nativity scenes ... to as the Star of Bethlehem, symbolizes ...

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a “great conjunction” of the bright planets Venus and Jupiter? On June 17, 2 B.C., the planets had come so close they would have almost appeared ...