Study details fifth- to ninth-century conversion of a Second Temple tomb into a worship site, complete with apse, altar and multilingual graffiti.

A rehabilitation project in northern Israel aims to provide safe and dry breeding places for the endangered marine mammals, ...

Kristen Stewart is making her directorial debut at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on Friday with her new romance/drama “The ...

And what of the cave markings? If one could show they were ... Former Archbishop of Canterbury Michael Ramsey argued, for example, that the birth of Jesus had to be seen as a metaphysical ...

Napoleon Pelletier, a French Canadian, led the founding of St. Anne Shrine in the 1920s, and remnants of the Catholic enclave ...

They also constructed the coquina-ringed structure that bore a statue of St. Anne, described in Christian and Islamic tradition as the mother of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus and also known as Our ...

The images beneath its main apse show the birth of Christ and Mary lying ... chapel that was constructed to resemble the cave in Bethlehem where Jesus was born. (The chapel has since been moved ...

They give the name of Ante-Feast of the Nativity to December 20, 21, 22, and 23; and although they say the Office of several saints on these four days, yet the mystery of the birth of Jesus ...

The birth of Jesus is mentioned in just two Gospels ... standing in front of the old Coptic Abu Serga church, built over a cave that is said to have been used by the Holy Family.