This landscape has changed little since that night nearly 2,000 years ago, when shepherds kept watch over their flocks in the fields. The setting is still serene; the stars at night, still ...

After visiting the manger in Bethlehem (last week’s article) on a study tour of Israel, our instructor took us to the shepherds’ field where tourists are usually taken.

On an open hillside north of Bethlehem, a little west of the traditional Shepherds’ Field site, there is a patch of rocks, olive trees and bushes.

If shepherds have become a kind of endangered species in Bethlehem, 73-year-old Carlos Nicola Sarras is an even greater rarity. He is one of the few remaining Christian shepherds in the area.

We can barely move,” says Adel Alsir, a 35-year-old Palestinian who herds his flock less than 100m from a biblical site known as the shepherds’ fields. While Alsir speaks, his 40 sheep scrutinize this ...

VINELAND – Christ the Good Shepherd Parish is staging its third "Journey to Peace & A Night in Bethlehem" on Saturday, Dec. 6 (5:30 to 8:30 p.m.) and Sunday, Dec. 7 (5:30 to 7:30 p.m.) at the ...

So the angels' proclaiming the birth of Jesus first to a group of shepherds carried a double dose of symbolic meaning. Not only would the messiah come from, and circulate mostly among, humble people.