It is true that, in the Old Testament, the child is a symbol of ancestry ... Jesus, on the other hand, links the pain of not bearing children to the love for the child to whom one would want ...

Dr Daniel McClellan, an honorary fellow at the University of Birmingham has finally revealed the back story of Jesus' ...

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Catholics in the United States generally don’t go to church on Dec. 26, so they might be surprised that — a day after the birth of Jesus Christ — the Church is marking the feast of its first ...

Prayers, including the church’s famed midnight mass, will still be held in the presence of the Catholic Church’s ... refuge in the 12th-century Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius ...

the grand old Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, whose hand I had to kiss after he placed around my neck a gold chain with a black and gold cross. Inside it was a wood splinter that ...

Faithful from all over the word started flocking to St. Peter’s square and lining up braving chilly temperatures to cross the Holy Door on Wednesday and thus receive the Catholic Church ...

A handcrafted nativity scene--also known as a "creche"--was gifted to the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church in Southampton by a Bulgarian couple. The creche was made by an artisan ...

Francis opened his annual Christmas address to the Catholic cardinals who lead the ... the traditional scarf used by Palestinians as a national symbol. The nativity scene drew criticism as it ...