Professor Chris Greenough of Social Sciences at Edge Hill University says that these Christmas story characters actually don't appear in the Bible. 'Some of best-known parts of the Christmas story ...

Church leaders in Jerusalem and the Bethlehem city council took the decision last month to forego “any unnecessarily festive” Christmas celebrations in solidarity with Gazans. The Latin ...

So in the 4th century, they created a rival festival to mark Jesus' birth: Christmas. The Bible doesn't explicitly state the date on which Jesus was born, and many theologians place his birth in ...

other Orthodox Christian churches in the region were getting ready for a different holiday — Orthodox Christmas, which falls Jan. 7. Because some Orthodox church jurisdictions follow the “old ...

Christmas is a Christian holy day that marks the birth of Jesus, who Christians believe to be the Son of God. When Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem the local inn was full with people returning ...