The Star of Bethlehem is the Biblical reference to a star that still puzzles astronomers and historians. Known as the star ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...

Historians and scientific researchers have long been divided over the exact birth location of Jesus Christ, along with other ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace of ...

Bible scholars have concluded from much research that, hundreds of years before Jesus ... and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God with us’)” (Matthew 1:23). Prophecy ...

On Christmas Eve in 1865, Brooks travelled on horseback from Jerusalem to Bethlehem and visited, according to the story, the spot where Jesus was born. Three years later, he wrote the poem for a ...

UNITED NATIONS — Despite recent progress in birth registration, some 150 million children worldwide remain “invisible,” deprived of legal identity and exposed to the risk of statelessness ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has taken a new initiative to tackle the country's rapidly declining birth rate in the face of the war with Ukraine, which is estimated to have caused 700,000 ...

Children who were in utero during a flood event are also more likely to have a low birth weight. Both these outcomes are risk factors for developing chronic health conditions such as asthma and ...

Nearly eight in 10 children under five were successfully registered at birth in the last five years. However, the report, The Right Start in Life: Global Levels and Trends in Birth Registration, also ...