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

Judith Nafula, a mother of five, says she received a divine revelation in the form of a dazzling light and a heavenly ...

Judith Nafula, a mother of five, says she received a divine revelation in the form of a dazzling light and a heavenly ...

Visitors love to come at Christmas, when a crowded Bethlehem celebrates its most famous ... from simple spray-on slogans to elaborate paintings and nine images by the mysterious British artist ...

In the Gospel of Luke, Mary and Joseph travel through the national territory, from Nazareth in Jewish Galilee to Bethlehem in Jewish Judea. In Matthew’s Gospel, the travel is international.

Mary and Joseph travel to Bethlehem to take part in Herod's census, where Jesus is born. Judas implores Zerah to let Jesus appear before the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem, where 'He will be handed over ...

Jesus was born in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago to Mary and Joseph. Christmas is more commonly connected with love, giving, and joy since it is believed that his birth brings hope and light ...

Bethlehem, by Cornelis Bruijn, 1698. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, public domain One of the most notable portions of the Nativity story is when Joseph and Mary had to travel to Bethlehem because of the ...

headed to Bethlehem to pay what had been mandated by Caesar Augustus. The trip would take Mary and Joseph about a week to travel from Nazareth, and they probably made their way south along a route ...

Joseph, a carpenter from Nazareth, and his wife Mary, late during her pregnancy, were among the hundreds forced to travel to Bethlehem by the Romans to facilitate a census. When Mary experienced ...

In contrast, the Gospel of Luke states that Mary and Joseph traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be counted ... of the birth as poetic language of images, designed to emphasize who Jesus really ...

According to Luke, Mary and Joseph start out in Nazareth but ... it wouldn't have made sense for a pregnant Mary to travel all the way to Bethlehem of Judea from their hometown of Nazareth.