The sermon went hand in hand with a display in Bethlehem depicting Jesus as a Palestinian baby under attack by the Israeli defense forces. The attempt to project contemporary politics or our own ...

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 ...

Overcome by rage, Herod ordered that all male infants of Bethlehem under the age of two be slaughtered so that his kingdom would not be threatened by the new king. His order was executed, but Mary and ...

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 ...

But Johny Andonia, a 39-year-old artist from Bethlehem who led the project, said it is just a ... because we learned that the child baby Jesus has to be covered or even absent until the 24th ...

Johny Andonia, a 39-year-old artist from Bethlehem who led the ... a Palestinian keffiyeh with the child Jesus in the manger — but according to the project’s organizer, the headscarf was ...

A nativity scene at the Vatican depicting baby Jesus wrapped in a Palestinian keffiyeh has been removed after sparking backlash. Pope Francis unveiled the display last Saturday as part of the annual ...

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 ...

The figure of the baby ... not be. Jesus Christ displayed on a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf gifted by the Palestinian Higher Committee of Churches Affairs, as part of the "Nativity of Bethlehem ...