Visitors are now able to see mosaics that were covered over and hidden for centuries at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem (MEE/Tessa Fox) Greek Orthodox Father Issa Thaljieh is grateful the ...

For the Church of the Nativity, the years of neglect have taken an irreversible toll. The majestic mosaics once covered vast areas of the basilica with Biblical scenes and 24 angels. Restorers ...

Masked for centuries by the soot of candles and lately by scaffolding, the mosaics of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity have been restored to their Crusader-era splendour in time for Christmas.

In A.D. 614, the Persians, who razed many other churches during wars with Byzantium, spared the Church of the Nativity, supposedly out of respect for a mosaic of the Magi shown wearing Persian attire.

Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, erected in the 4th century on the spot where some Christians believe Jesus Christ was born, showed off newly restored mosaics and frescoes ahead of Christmas.

A church was first completed there in ad 339 and the edifice that replaced it after a fire in the 6th century retains elaborate floor mosaics from the original ... that the place where the Church of ...

Santa Maria Maggiore, the Roman basilica that houses an ancient mosaic of the Epiphany, boasts several ties to early Nativity scenes. According to Berliner, papal records indicate the church ...