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Christmas traditions around the world celebrate the holiday as a commemoration of Jesus Christ’s birth. But the truth behind his birthdate is much more complicated. So when was Jesus born? For ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Christmas is the most magical time of the year, fondly looked forward ...

Tomorrow night, Jupiter and Saturn will briefly cross paths in the sky and appear to form a single body. Though planetary conjunctions aren’t especially rare, this one is getting a lot of attention ...

To some people, Christmastime is nothing more than a season of generosity, joy, dressing up evergreen trees, waiting for Santa Claus and buying gifts for their loved ones. To others, it is all of ...

Jesus’ birthday has been celebrated on December 25th for nearly two millennia. Indeed, the first known commemoration of Christmas on December 25th was in A.D. 336—when Hippolytus of Rome claimed that ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Though Christmas has become a retail extravaganza, its holiday roots ...

It is always difficult to be exact with ancient dates, but most scholars believe that Jesus was born around 6-4 B.C. The calendar as it is known today recognizes history before and after the life of ...