And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young ...
Bright stars top Christmas trees in Christian homes around much of the world. The faithful sing about the "Star of Wonder" that guided the wise men to a manger in the little town of Bethlehem, where ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty ...
Matthew chapter 2 tells us the story of the wise men: “After Jesus was born in Bethlehem … Magi from the east came … saw His star … and have come to worship Him … they saw the Child with His mother ...
Source: Adobe stock image by lukbar, licensed by Ravi Chandra As the legend and Gospel of Matthew have it, sometime soon after baby Jesus was born in Bethlehem, three wise men of the East came bearing ...
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Christmas is filled with traditions, including the story of Jesus’ birth. Some depictions show sheep, camels and donkeys ...
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 Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...