Christmas celebrations are canceled in the West Bank and the city of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ’s birthplace, for the second ...
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In one of only a handful of times in the last century, Christmas this year coincides with the ...
“If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble in Gaza … To us, this is a message that Jesus identifies with our suffering.” Isaac is the author of a forthcoming bo ...
The Greek word “skandalon” suggests a stumbling block, but also “a trap or snare laid for an enemy.” But there is no trap for ...
another church assembled a Christ in the Rubble crèche last week. The nativity scene outside St. Mark’s Episcopal Church features a Black baby Jesus swaddled in a keffiyeh lying in a bed of ...
That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...
Amid the horror of watching genocide unfold day after day, the words of a Palestinian pastor gave me a reason to hope.
The Church of the Nativity now stands on the site considered to be Jesus’ birthplace, in an animal stable, where the newborn ...
In an advertisement for New Testament retelling “the Greatest Story Ever Told,” survivalist Bear Grylls called Mary a ...