The Christmas story of a baby born in a manger is a familiar one. The Roman Empire, a police state in its own right, had ordered that a census be conducted. Joseph and his pregnant wife Mary ...

And of course, we must not forget that Jesus was born in a manger, a shelter for animals, because no room was available in Bethlehem where accommodation was sought for his mother whose pregnancy ...

God was born in a manger so that you could be reborn in the very place where you thought you had hit rock bottom. There is no evil, there is no sin, from which Jesus does not want to save you.” ...

Given the nature of government then and now, it is painfully evident that whether Jesus had been born in our modern age or His own, He still would have died at the hands of a police state.

Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, will remove its Christmas displays and cancel celebrations to honor the "martyrs" of Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war continues.

What if, instead of being born into the Roman police state, Jesus had been born at this moment in time?

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- More than two millennia after the Holy Family was denied a room at the inn and Jesus was born in a manger, war once again renders his birthplace in the Holy Land inhospitable ...

Although salvation is through Jesus by grace alone and through faith alone, the moral law is part of creation through the Ten Commandments for example. In fact, civil law in western societies relies ...

The penalty for not responding to this invasive survey can go as high as $5,000. Instead of being born in a manger, Jesus might have been born at home.

This is Italian artist Giorgione's painting "The Adoration of the Shepherds" depicting the newborn Jesus with the shepherds and Joseph and Mary at a manger in Bethlehem. Giorgione lived from 1477 ...

“Around the manger there is very little: hay and straw, a few animals, little else. People were warm in the inn, but not here in the coldness of a stable. Yet that is where Jesus was born,” he ...