The birth of Jesus Christ - a seminal biblical event - has been the subject of many paintings by Western artists, who have often applied the ideas of beauty and creativity prevalent there while ...

Through Nativity art, the Word takes on flesh across diverse Eastern cultures. Jesus was born in Asia. He was Asian. Yet the preponderance of Christian art that shows him at home in Europe has meant ...

Archeologists say they have traced the origins of the first Christmas to be celebrated on 25 December, 300 years before the birth of Christ. The original event marked the consecration of the ancient ...