Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 ...

A Tomb Once Said to Hold ‘Jesus’s Midwife’ Might Instead Hold Ancient Royalty For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure.

The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council (1962 to 1965), while declaring that Jesus’s birth “enhanced Mary’s virginity”, put a brake on this growing Marian dogmatic movement.

The story of Jesus's birth is oft told, but Mary and Joseph's unconventional courtship can also be found in the history of Judea. HISTORY MAGAZINE Here’s what biblical scholars say.

Finally, Jesus’s resurrection is divine. It is still a mystery to many, which is why faith is essential in accepting that it actually happened. In John 11, he declared himself as “the ...

John’s Gospel has a bit more on Jesus’s family, but no birth scene. When we first see Jesus in the Gospel of John, he is already both the Son of God and a man—that is to say, not an infant.

The Koran highlights Jesus's birth as a miracle and a sign of God’s power, but it does not associate his birth with specific dates or celebrations like Christmas.

Many in the Western church world disagree with either of these dates, suggesting Jesus's birth might have occurred in autumn. They reason that shepherds wouldn't be watching their sheep at night ...

And, so, it could have been up to two years after Jesus’s birth that the three wise men came.” Plus, there’s some ambiguity surrounding Mary’s and Joseph’s trip to Bethlehem before Christ’s birth. “We ...

The birth of Jesus Christ - a seminal biblical event - has been the subject of many paintings by Western artists, who have often applied the ideas of beauty and creativity prevalent there while ...

The holiday has long ties to Catholicism and celebrates the night before the birth of Christ. However, the essence of Nochebuena is the feeling of togetherness, according to Azul Barrientos, a ...