Country’s youngsters give religious icon a modern-day makeover, cafes celebrate his birthday, critics say trend ‘desecrates ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

(MK 9:1.20). But these expectations were not fulfilled. And the author of Mark seems to want to recast traditional images of Jesus to make sense of the events that occurred, or did not occur ...

But they also call upon images of land owners and relationships between slave owners and slaves, masters and servants. So Jesus seems to have been aware of that level of the socio-economic mix.

The image of baby Jesus in the Bethlehem barn warms our hearts ... People collect hand-carved images of Mary, Joseph, and the newborn child. We love the Christ in the cradle.

The story of Jesus being born to Mary in a barn in Bethlehem, surrounded by shepherds, animals and angels, is the gospel truth that gave rise to Christianity, the largest religion in the world.