As many Americans prepare for the holidays with the hustle and bustle of sending cards, going shopping and taking kids to see Santa Claus, it can be easy to forget the true meaning of Christmas. In a ...

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 ...

The age-old debate of Jesus Christ's origins often resurfaces around Christmas time. Experts and laymen argue over his suspected appearance and features, background, birth location - and even his mere ...

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 ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh, surrounded ...

In a shocking discovery archaeologists believe they’ve found pieces of large stone jars of the exact kind that the Gospel says Jesus used when he performed the miracle of turning water into wine in ...

A new excavation project in Jerusalem has unearthed steps unseen in over 2,000 years at a place where the New Testament records Jesus as having healed a blind man. The Israel Antiquities Authority, ...

A Christian magazine’s controversial article explaining Jesus Christ’s ethnicity set off social media commentators on Christmas Eve. Christianity Today published a story entitled, “How Asian Artists ...

In a startling find, archaeologists reckon they've unearthed fragments of large stone jars, identical to those the Gospel claims Jesus used when he miraculously turned water into wine in the Galilee ...

Kristen Burckhartt felt overwhelmed. She needed time to reflect, to let it sink in that she had just briefly soaked her feet in the water where Jesus is said to have been baptized, in the Jordan River ...