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Deeper. religion correspondent lauren green looks at the original story. >> reporter: the bright lights of todays christmas traditions are stark contrast to the dark first christmas, the birth of jesus. in so many ways a study in opposites, ideas about beauty and authority differ from gods. >> the real authorities in that manger. >> reporter: in his book the characters of christmas father dan darling takes readers on a journey through the nativity narrative shining a light on the people and plac...

And we always had a live tree because she wanted to smell the christmas tree and she just always made it wonderful and special. it was always christmas music playing and we went to church every christmas eve. we gold to the midnight service. ed: thats very special. ainsley: then we would wake up and go to my grandparents house after we did our christmas. our santa. and all of my cousins would meet there they lived about 30 minutes away from us. we were in spartanburg and they were in greenville ...

Deeper than that. religion correspondent come out lauren green looks at the original story. >> the bright lights of todays christmas traditions are a stark contrast to the dark engineers of the first christmas, the birth of. >> the real power, the real authority is in that -- >> in his book, "the character of christmas" he takes readers on a journey through the nativity narrative, shining the light on the people and places who may not be so well known or understood. marys strength of faith to en...

Its been a lot of joyous moments for families again all over the world including the united states who have traveled here to celebrate christmas outside of the basilica. outside of the nativity you can see the lights and a large christmas tree or let up right now but this will be going on all night. that big event at midnight, midnight mass and many waiting here in meijer square for that event to get started. >> mike: we understand there is a special relic from the vatican that just arrived in b...

Bethlehem to participate in some of the ceremonies outside of the basilica of the nativity. there is a number of christmas lights hung up and a big christmas tree so many families here enjoying the holiday season. fox news took a look at a new relic which is a piece of the crib that supposedly lead-in. take a look. bethlehem is marking the christmas holiday with a new arrival from the vatican. a piece of the crib that supposedly laid in. >> this is the first time after 1,400 years that a piece o...

Air. combining those two things is very typical. hitting when you want to come of is very difficult. americans are going to feast today and tomorrow in ways that north koreans can only dream of under kim. this is an attempt to distract for what he has done to that nation and to beat his chest and the only way that he can. >> mike: all right, panel after a great start. well get back to you guys a little later. thank you. lets take a look at midnight mass in bethlehem, where its already the very e...

The meaning is much older and deeper than that. religion correspondent come out lauren green looks at the original story. >> the bright lights of todays christmas traditions are a stark contrast to the dark engineers of the first christmas, the birth of. >> the real power, the real authority is in that -- >> in his book, "the character of christmas" he takes readers on a journey through the nativity narrative, shining the light on the people and places who may not be so well known or understood....

Morning, as you can imagine, celebrations in the town of bethlehem on christmas eve are a mixture of religious related events and also just families here to take in the holiday season. the latin patriarch arrived here in jerusalem moments ago. he will participate in some of those ceremonies. others here to see the lights and big tree in manger square outside the basilica of the nativity. we had access to see a crib jesus laid. in later political controversy surrounding the holiday season in the ...

Religious tradition. also celebration as people around the world have come here to mark the occasion. earlier today there was a procession in a parade with a latin patriarch making his way from jerusalem to bethlehem and meijer square outside the church and the nativity. earlier this week fox news was shown a relic that just arrived in bethlehem from vatican city. it is actually a piece of the crib that supposedly laid in. take a look. ♪ >> bethlehem is marking the christmas holiday with a new...

Season with nativity scenes as an example. >> shannon: and happens all the time but we brought the case of today, theres a lot of reactions in the media about people who do not love it when folks leap up their lights because new years, past valentines day to get going. at this family was on all the time and they were salivating other holidays because of the religion, hindu, others and its very important to them. of to the virginia supreme court decision we find the seasonal guidelines and the ba...