The celebration of the Nativity was not something that Christians did for the first few centuries of Christianity. Easter, ...

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born, and when Christians started celebrating his birth.

One of the problems about the development of traditions around Christmas is that people writing hymns or plays set Jesus' birth in their own world rather than in what we know of the first century. In ...

Did Christmas came from Saturnalia? Some say yes while others claim that it emerged organically. And what about Jesus' real ...

Fr. Rodrigues: What is historical is that Jesus was born. So obviously December 25 is not actually the historical date when ...

We all know the Christmas story is one in which peace and joy are proclaimed. However, when I began to research my book, that ...

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 ...

With Christmas just around the corner, a local church in Yuma is offering residents the opportunity to experience the origins ...