One of the problems about the development of traditions around Christmas is that people writing hymns or plays set Jesus' ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...

We all know the Christmas story is one in which peace and joy are proclaimed. However, when I began to research my book, that ...

The celebration of the Nativity was not something that Christians did for the first few centuries of Christianity. Easter, ...

While there are many ancient texts focusing on Jesus as a baby and as a man, much less is known about him as a child. Here’s ...

Fr. Rodrigues: What is historical is that Jesus was born. So obviously December 25 is not actually the historical date when ...

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 ...

Scholars believe Jesus was born between 6 and 4 BCE in the town of Bethlehem, located in the modern-day West Bank. The Middle Eastern territory is located in what is now Palestine, though Israel has ...

Does the Gospel of Luke really tell the truth about the Nativity? Was Quirinius really the governor of Syria at the time of ...

Jesus does not merely resemble today's migrants and displaced people; Jesus is with them. From his very first day, the life ...

An angel came to Joseph in a dream and told him that Jesus’ life was in danger because of King Herod, so he took Mary and Jesus to Egypt.