DALLAS — Today, most babies get a birth certificate, making it easy to prove what day you're born on. But in the time of Jesus, it didn’t work that way. So, was Jesus actually born on Dec. 25? For ...

Did you ever wonder why Christmas falls on Dec. 25? After all, the Bible provides no birth date for Jesus. Or does it? There's a possible clue in Luke 2:8, which says that when Jesus was born ...

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Christmas is believed to have first been celebrated in 336 AD by the Romans, but it did not become a widespread Christian festival until the ninth century. It is held on December 25 each year to mark ...

Every Christmas, a storm of controversy ignites over the accurate date of Jesus’ birth. Fueled by sensationalist media and a public eager to speculate, these debates churn out myths and historical ...

In their differing accounts of the first Christmas, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke provide important historical details about where and when Jesus was born. Sacred originsWith its shepherds and wise ...