However, according to the latest work carried out by historians, it is more likely that the date was selected because of an earlier Roman festival and that the actual day of the arrival of Jesus of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty ...

There are many city names in the Bible, and sometimes we can mix them up, confusing which events happened in each location. Two cities that can be easily confused are Nazareth and Bethlehem, cities ...

The epic story of Jesus, a timeless journey of faith, sacrifice, and hope. The Greatest Story Ever Told on WLRN's Saturday Night Movie From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual ...

Different accounts of Jesus birth and infancy—the Christmas stories found in Matthew 1—2 and Luke 1—2—are irreconcilable and beyond reasonable harmonization. They were overjoyed at seeing the star, ...

Jesus of Nazareth, by Fernando de Gorocica. Creative Commons. A Patheos reader sends us this question. When it comes to faith, the ground level question is often the one to ask. Christians gather to ...

Nazareth was a very small town when Jesus was born. When my wife and I visited there in 2014, our tour guide told us that it was scarcely as large as the parking lot of the Church of the Annunciation ...