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. “The Nativity at Night” by Guido Reni, an Italian baroque painter.

It boggles my mind. 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.

“It’s so crucial because this story is not just Jesus’s story of 2,000 years ago. It’s today’s story. And we need to make sure that we’re living the word that we were told when it ...

Its symbolism is that the birth of Christ, the Light of the world, destroys the spell of darkness. Similarly, whether Jesus was actually born in Bethlehem or not, is secondary. Luke writes that he was ...

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 ...

Inspired by his friend and mentor Henri Nouwen, Metropolitan Borys Gudziak, leader of Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S., invites listeners in his Christmas Eve homily to approach the manger with ...