Christmas marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Palestine, in what is now the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The occasion is both solemn and ...

Have you ever read a book or watched a movie and thought, “That’s not how I would have written the story?” Perhaps the setting or the characters weren’t quite right.

In a quirk of the calendar, Christmas Day and the Jewish festival of light, Hanukkah, coincided this year. This has happened only four times since 1900. The confluence was understandably seized upon ...

Jesus is worshiped as savior of the world by many of his believers and recognized as a prophet of God by other ...

A church whose congregation has roots in the 19th century is closing and donating hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sale of its building to charity in a Pennsylvania city named for the ...

We all know the stories that led up to the birth of Jesus Christ, but we pay little attention to what happened “the day after ...

One of the forgotten facts of the story of Jesus’ life is that he came from a profoundly dysfunctional family. I was reminded ...

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

No presents on Christmas day? Drinking hot corn? Why is Mexican Christmas different and what goes on in December and January?

December has multiple celebrations marked on the calendar. One of them is the Day of the Holy Innocents, which is celebrated ...

While glittering Christmas decorations adorn malls and mansions across the Western world, a stark contrast emerges in ...

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Palestine, during a time of colonisation, political and economic oppression by Roman ...