Bethlehem continued the tradition of lowering a 400-pound replica marshmallow Peep to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

Some were public leaders; others were stalwarts in business, education, medicine, religion and other areas. The year’s list ...

New research examines the theory that this biblical phenomenon was actually a comet, and subjects it to mathematical ...

At the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first, packed Christmas Eve Mass as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

The 2023 and 2024 celebrations were canceled with a "broken heart and a broken soul," Bethlehem's mayor told NBC News, but ...

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magifrom the east came to Jerusalem and asked, “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it ...

Each year, our church celebrates this feast as a declaration that with Jesus’ birth we once again acknowledge the viable ...

Described in the Gospel of Matthew as the celestial sign that led the Magi to the newborn Jesus, the star stands at the ...

Palestinians in the West Bank live in a state of fear and trauma that will continue to perpetuate insecurity in the region if ...