And if he wasn't, why do Christians celebrate his birth on December 25 every year? Here’s a quick breakdown of the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been ...
The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...
Mary gave birth to Jesus in Bethlehem and laid him in a manger. There, according to the gospels, he was visited by kings and shepherds who had heard about his birth. Advent is the season leading ...
DAMASCUS, Syria — This Christmas morning in Syria’s capital, Christians dressed in their finest clothes, attended church and participated in the annual parade through the ancient part of the city.
How the historic evangelical institution served a reeling Shiite community. The predominantly Shiite city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon once boasted the nation’s largest Christmas tree ...
When Band Aid recorded a single to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia, the supergroup famously sang: "Do they know it's Christmas time at all?" The discovery confirms that Christianity ...