Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...
With no confirmation of Jesus' birth and no mention of Christmas itself in the Bible, you may be wondering how the holiday ...
One of the problems about the development of traditions around Christmas is that people writing hymns or plays set Jesus' ...
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 ...
Was there really a Roman census at the time of Jesus' birth, or is this detail in the Gospel of Luke historically inaccurate?
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...