The mohel —the Jewish circumciser—was quietly rebranded a “local health practitioner,” as the sign of the Covenant and the ...

A billboard in Times Square claims Jesus was Palestinian in a holiday message from an Arab-American group amid ongoing Middle ...

As for the name “Palestine,” it was not used in any widespread way to describe the land of Israel until 135 AD – in other ...

The birth of Jesus a story that is the greatest gift to all who believe in the message and we continue to celebrate today.

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

Here are seven often-missed details in the Nativity story — each one adding new richness to our understanding of Christmas.

Each year, our church celebrates this feast as a declaration that with Jesus’ birth we once again acknowledge the viable ...

In their differing accounts of the first Christmas, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke provide important historical details about where and when Jesus was born. Sacred originsWith its shepherds and wise ...

It will be a sad, silent night in Bethlehem. The city of Jesus’ birth has canceled its annual Christmas celebrations out of respect for the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, nearly three months into ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

Both infancy narratives build upon the memories of historical events and contain useful historical data. However, readers today should not assume that everything in the narratives is certain ...