“O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee ... Also on the abbey’s grounds is a simple, life-size Nativity scene of the Holy Family, located in a simple shed, with Joseph dressed ...

Bethlehem is not expecting the usual festivities ... The festive lights and giant tree that normally decorate Manger Square were missing. Throngs of foreign tourists that usually fill the square ...

The story of Bethlehem, shepherds, wise men, and a manger may have only emerged later ... Set in the marble floor of the Grotto is a silver star which represents the spot where Jesus was born ...

A question frequently heard by astronomers near Christmas is, “What was the Star of Bethlehem ... Men worshiping the Child as he lay in the manger, but Matthew distinctly states that they ...

The crib is set in a simple stable or manger, representing ... culminating on Epiphany. The star, placed above the stable, signifies the Star of Bethlehem, which guided the Magi to Jesus.

and extends along the Star Street through the Damascus Gate, or Qos Al-Zarara, the historical gate of the town, towards the Manger Square. The Route continues to be celebrated as the path followed by ...

Christians from all over the world revere them as the "Three Wise Men from the East" who followed the star of Bethlehem to Jesus' manger and paid homage to him as the newborn son of God.

Interestingly, the star does not lead them to the manger in Bethlehem, where the child lies. Rather, it takes them to Jerusalem, center of the Jewish world, to King Herod. Jesus will later say to ...

A Christmas installation of a grotto with figures standing amid rubble surrounded by a razor wire, is displayed outside the Church of the Nativity, in support of Gaza, on Manger Square in ...

The bombed-out nativity scene is surrounded by rubble ... together with a depiction of an explosion, form a star, inspired by the Star of Bethlehem that led the Magi to Jesus’s birth.