In the last few decades, that knowledge has taken a back seat to the hustle and bustle of shopping, parties and Santa Claus. Even the "comfort and joy" heralded is more about general feelings of ...

The video showed a brief clip of their annual ... to ensure Mary and Jesus’ health post-birth. Animals of the barn snuggling up to the family to comfort baby Jesus as he cried. A local helping the ...

One is the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, which is believed to house the site where Mary gave birth to Jesus. Tradition holds ... inspired many works of art in which the Holy Family is ...

More than 20 years ago, a group of volunteers in the Valley began to organize Bethlehem Village ... Village residents will not mention the birth of Jesus, because, on that historic night, none ...

Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not mention Bethlehem or Jesus’ birth at all. The Gospels’ different views might be hard to reconcile ...

Bethlehem lies 10 kilometres south of the city of Jerusalem ... which led to the development of the Church of the Nativity on the site believed to be associated with the birth of Jesus; and to the ...

He would come from Bethlehem (Micah 5:2 ... Keywords: christmas birth of jesus rosary & art John Grondelski John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean of the School of Theology ...

Because of the requirement to travel to their hometown, Bethlehem was overflowing. There was no room for them to stay other than a barn. While there Mary gives birth to Jesus. An angel of the Lord ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — At Christmastime ... At first, he said, the idea of placing the birth of Jesus in a war zone “was shocking — it was hard for even our own people.