BUT RIGHT NOW, THERE’S SOMEONE IMPORTANT MISSING. WE KNOW BY SUNDAY MORNING, HE WAS GONE. BABY JESUS WAS STOLEN FROM THE MANGER SOMETIME OVER THE WEEKEND. BOROUGH LEADERS DON’T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. Many Christmas ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now been placed in the nativity scene without the kefiah. In the Paul VI Hall ...

Santa Claus’ predecessors also include Netherland’s Sinterklaas, the hooded French patriarch Père Noël, and the German gift-giving baby ... Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another somber Christmas ...

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 ...

While it is taken as given that Jesus was born on Christmas Day in the town of Bethlehem, this account likely doesn't match the historical reality. In fact, many historians and archaeologists don ...

A keffiyeh-wrapped Baby Jesus in nativity scenes ... symbol brings attention to the political realities of modern-day Bethlehem and the ongoing conflict in Gaza, prompting deeper questions ...

designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. “Dressing baby Jesus in a keffiyeh is not only a cynical ...

This Advent season they are becoming more common. Even Pope Francis was presented a crèche December 7 by two Bethlehem-based artists, featuring a baby Jesus nestled in a keffiyeh. The pontiff declared ...

Kaffiyeh-clad baby Jesus is showing up in manger scenes all over the world, even in the Vatican itself. Sometimes, those manger scenes are filled with rubble, symbolizing the mass destruction in ...