Floods literally broke down religious barriers in parts of Kerala with two groups of Muslim youths cleaning up two temples in Wayanad and Palakkad districts on Monday Many of them were fasting as the ...

The story of Jesus's birth is oft told, but Mary and Joseph's unconventional courtship can also be found in the history of Judea. HISTORY MAGAZINE Here’s what biblical scholars say.

Whether you're religious or not, you know what a basic Nativity scene looks like -- Joseph and Mary kneeling by the manger of the baby Jesus, surrounded by shepherds, kings, and farm animals.

Ukraine’s national identity is still evolving. The Ukrainian-speaking region once known as Galicia, in the west, with its longstanding ties to Austria, Poland and Central Europe, developed a ...

Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, fresco, c. 1495-1498.Courtesy of the Cenacolo Vinciano museum. “Of different colors equally perfect, that will appear most excellent which is seen near its direct ...

Matthew 27:59-60 reads: 'Then Joseph took the body and wrapped it in a new linen cloth. He put Jesus’ body in a new tomb that he had dug in a wall of rock.

He envisioned a young Jesus surrounded by his parents, Joseph and Mary, in their working-class carpenter’s shop. It would be a new kind of scene: serene, overindulged with religious symbolism ...

Artist Kelly Latimore’s “Tent City Nativity” (2022) depicts Jesus, Mary, and Joseph inside an unhoused tent community, barred from the bustling city behind them by a metal fence.

This is Jesus, Mary and Joseph’s story—but it is also ours, told through images rather than words, across the distance of 700 years. I don’t know if Martini himself was a father, but I ...

Another year, he constructed an elaborate, Russian-themed nativity scene. The onion-domed manger is complete with Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus, flanked by a trio of wise men.

In a large late painting called “Christ Discovered in the Temple,” Jesus, Joseph and Mary come across as a dysfunctional modern family: pouting adolescent kid; exasperated Dad; mediating Mom.

William Armitage was born Feb. 16, 1820, in the Deptford area of southeast London to Thomas Armitage and Mary Wier. Little is known of his familial background, or the circumstances of his artistic ...