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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 ...

It’s Christmas, and massive numbers of people are arriving at the southern border of the United States claiming they are seeking asylum (the vast majority are coming for economic reasons so ineligible ...

Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem where the inns were full and they were given option to stay in a stable, where Jesus was born Bethlehem was the hometown of King David and the Old Testament ...

The Middle East. The West Bank. Bethlehem. The place where Jesus was born. The place where the angels sang, “Peace on earth, good will to men.” But the Middle East is not a place of peace. However, ...

Devotees visit a nativity scene displayed outside a church ahead of Christmas celebrations, in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Dec. 12, 2023. (Photo: AFP) Didn’t Pope Benedict XVI start it ...

We've asked Helen Bond FRSE Professor of Christian Origins and New Testament at The University of Edinburgh to answer the most googled questions about Jesus. You can now become a History Hit member ...

Many Christians are familiar with the beautiful and tender words of the medieval theologian Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) in the hymns "O Sacred Head Now Wounded," "Jesus the Very Thought of Thee," ...

The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary traveled ...

Every year at Christmas, the hilltop town of Bethlehem comes alive with holiday cheer. Parades light up the cobblestone alleyways around the Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where Jesus ...