For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

COMMENTARY: The canonization centennial of two influential French priests illustrates new light from the marvelous feast of ...

A cave in Israel once thought to be linked to Jesus may in fact be the burial place of another person from his time: Salome, the sister of the Judaean king Herod the Great, a new study finds.The idea ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem ... chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its original place on the manger of the Palestinian-made ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its original place ... The Nativity scene was crafted by artists from ...

This holiday season in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, looks like it does every year. A Christmas tree stands by city hall with a nativity scene ... deemed this place, the Bethlehem Moravian Settlement ...

“O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee ... It spans 16 feet wide and 6 feet deep. The Nativity scene takes place before a backdrop mural of an 18th-century seaside and an azure ...

It’s a key feature of a school nativity play, but what’s the science behind the Star of Bethlehem? Also known as the Christmas Star, the Star of Bethlehem appears in the Bible’s Gospel of Matthew. The ...

An archaeological survey of Bethlehem in 1969 uncovered a number of pieces of pottery dating back to the Iron Age around 1000 to 586 BC. A later excavation near the Church of the Nativity in 2016 ...

“Black Nativity ... from the original, such as “Go Tell It On the Mountain.” In the original text of the play, the narrator told the story of Joseph traveling to Bethlehem with his ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian keffiyeh with the child Jesus in the manger — but according to the project ...

United Nations’ Recognition of Bethlehem’s Authentic Historicity The original Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was built in ... “The association of the place that was believed to be the birthplace ...