The papal basilica, also known as the 'Bethlehem of the West,' houses both the venerated icon of Mary and relics of Christ’s ...

The village of Battir, on the West Bank hills near Bethlehem, is a land of olive groves, grape vines, fig trees and seven ...

Babylonian astrology, a most popular practice in the ancient world, could provide the key to the riddle of the Star of ...

“Christ in the Rubble” is the name of one such creche, located a short walk along an ancient stone-paved street from Jesus’ ...

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 ...

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

Post reporter Caitlin Doornbos hoped to take a break from the war to share the stories of Christians making their pilgrimages ...

Later during the Christmas season, you might want to watch the 1949 film Come to the Stable that tells the story of Regina ...

This Christmas, while massive crowds of pilgrims will flock to Rome for the opening of the Jubilee year, I'll be spending the ...

Mary and Joseph had no forethought about what was to happen. They both were young devout Jewish teens enjoying life and their home in Nazareth. Joseph's father was named Jacob and his grandfather was ...

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