"Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story" continues to be a nonviolence teaching tool and an influential historical ...

The bright shining star guides visitors into Bethlehem to see the coming of the Christ child, just like in the oft-told story of Christmas. Only this bright star is a spotlight shining straight ...

Jakie Walters, pastor of the Edisto Baptist Church, and more than 80 members of his congregation are preparing for their annual “Drive-Thru Bethlehem ... about the birth of Christ and the ...

In the last few decades, that knowledge has taken a back seat to the hustle and bustle of shopping, parties and Santa Claus. Even the "comfort and joy" heralded is more about general feelings of ...

“We might wonder why setting up a putz and telling the story of Jesus’ birth is so important to the Moravians, and now to the city of Bethlehem,” Rice says in the recording. “One reason ...

The little town of Bethlehem has cancelled Christmas celebrations ... point silver star on the marble floor marks the site of Jesus’s birth. Christmas Eve midnight mass is at the 19th-century ...

"Our earliest Gospel—Mark—says nothing about his birth. And the Apostle Paul—who knew the brothers of Jesus—says nothing about Bethlehem," Dr. Taylor is cited by the Daily Mail. This ...

According to the Christmas story, Mary was forced to give birth to Jesus in a stable because there was no room at the inn. Today, nearly all of Bethlehem’s 5,500 hotel rooms are empty.

“This gesture connects the birth of Jesus to the natural world ... to the village of Bethlehem, which exists to this very day. We sing about it as a census—not only of citizens, but a census ...

Matthew's gospel suggests that the holy family lived in Bethlehem and only moved later to flee King Herod's massacre of the innocents after Jesus' birth. Luke, on the other hand, gives us the ...

(AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao) A beloved tradition retells the story of the birth of Jesus Bethlehem’s first settlers brought with them hand-carved figures to retell the story of Christ’s birth.

This is the time of year when we hear the Christmas story of Jesus’ birth in the town of Bethlehem. We know how long ago it has been since his birth because our calendars count the years since 0 ...