This, however, is where things start to fall apart for the Bethlehem narrative. Professor Bond says: 'Luke suggests it [the census] is over the whole Roman world and that people had to go back to ...
The video is from late October 2022, not December 2024, and was recorded outside of a church in Beit Sahour, a small town near Bethlehem.
As the country prepares to mark the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Bethlehem is celebrating the contributions its ...
At Christmas, we remember the wise men who followed a star to Bethlehem. But what was the star? The Christmas star At Christmas time, people sometimes put a star on top of the Christmas tree.
It was approximately a 90-mile trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem. In those days, people would travel about 20 miles a day. They didn’t travel a flat, paved road, but rugged terrain that would go ...
For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to war in Gaza.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically ...
“Like all Moravian traditions, the importance of it is that it brings people together,” said the Rev. Janel Rice, senior pastor of Central Moravian Church — Bethlehem’s first ...
The star is mentioned twice, and the text implies the first sighting was at the time of Jesus's birth.