Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born and when Christians started ...
The celebration of the Nativity was not something that Christians did for the first few centuries of Christianity. Easter, ...
One of the problems about the development of traditions around Christmas is that people writing hymns or plays set Jesus' ...
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Was Jesus really born on Christmas Day?
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 ...
Was there really a Roman census at the time of Jesus' birth, or is this detail in the Gospel of Luke historically inaccurate?
Every Christmas, a storm of controversy ignites over the accurate date of Jesus’ birth. Fueled by sensationalist media and a public eager to speculate, these debates churn out myths and historical ...
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 ...
The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana, Most Rev Prof Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, has raised concerns over the ...
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 ...
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