it is hardly the entire picture. Professor Bond says that although Jesus was very likely to have been born in Nazareth, the fact that the Bible focuses on Bethlehem is just as important to know.

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago.

The event’s focus will be an art installation showing what the Holy Family would have experienced if Jesus had been born today, said Bethlehem ... draws parallels with images of northern Gaza ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images ...

Our guide asked us to have room in our hearts and minds for God to be born ... newborn Jesus. These holy sites “draw Christians as a presence of a positive future, like Mary in Bethlehem ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Pilgrims celebrated Christmas Day Wednesday in the ancient Bethlehem church where tradition holds Jesus was born, as candles illuminated the sacred site and the joyous ...

He told Newsweek: "Jesus was almost certainly born in the main room of a Palestinian ... these days always lands on December 25 More Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images "Christmas is ...

Through Nativity art, the Word takes on ... Some may object to depicting Jesus as anything other than a brown male born into a Jewish family in Bethlehem of Judea in the first century, believing ...

Scientists and historians are raising fresh questions over the long-held belief that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea ... the birth as poetic language of images, designed to emphasize who ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images ...