I am reposting here my annual collection of resources on the Epiphany, the visit of the magi to the young Jesus, as recorded ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...

Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day. Gone was the ...

The day is celebrated with huge joy and fervour worldwide, where people pray, party, and celebrate the occasion.

Every Christmas season, as in every Easter season, I retreat from bread and butter life, including revelry, to retreat as ...

The scholar and Christian convert Ayaan Hirsi Ali wrote recently of her pleasure in experiencing Christmas as a person new to ...

We string our lights, trim our trees, talk about the holiday, hear recorded songs mentioning the birth of Jesus... But how ...

St. Francis was inspired, it is believed, by his pilgrimage to the Holy Land to depict the scene of Christ’s birth in a literal way. As his first biographer, Brother Thomas of Celano, explains it, St.

Photo courtesy of anews Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Palestine, during a time of colonization and political and economic ...

Discover the history behind the Christmas traditions. Explore how the holiday brings people together around the world and how ...

The biblical narrative of Herod’s decision to butcher some 3,000 innocent children inspired Rennaissance and Baroque artists ...

Did Joseph and Mary really need to go to Bethlehem because of a Roman census, or is this unhistorical, as some scholars ...