Bethlehem

You could be forgiven for thinking that it is always Advent in Bethlehem. Everything in the town seems to lean toward the manger, toward Christmas.

In Bethlehem—the birthplace of Jesus—many public festivities that usually animate the West Bank city this time of year have been canceled.

Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh, surrounded by jagged chunks of stone — ...

Preparations for the annual Bounty of Bethlehem started this week. The annual feast will be served on Christmas Day at the Salvation Army in Hendersonville.

Around this time of year, I start seeing posts on social media about how Jesus was a refugee, an asylum seeker, an immigrant, etc.

The Christmas stories told in churches, in carols, in the art and which permeate our traditions and culture, have been infernally transformed into a ...

Rania Al Abdullah is the queen of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Bethlehem usually comes alive at Christmas. Not this year. In the Holy Land, ...

Photo by Munther Isaac @MuntherIsaac on X. (RNS) — Last month, as the war on Gaza raged, church leaders in Jerusalem made a decision to cancel all festivities ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (OSV News) ─ Almost a year ago, Elia Khair and Jouline Salameh opened their own high-end tourist restaurant in Beit Sahour, ...

Andrew F. Bush is the director of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice at Bethlehem Bible College. He is also the pastor of the East Jerusalem ...

The SA Council of Churches said Reverend Frank Chikane, Archbishop Thami Ngcana, Dean Michael Weeder, and Ds Riaan de Villiers are among those who will gather ...

Frontline workers and waste collectors made Santa's nice list this year, while the Hallmark Channel made it on the "check twice" pile.

The war in Gaza between Hamas and Israel has cost thousands of lives, and displaced scores of people from the Gaza Strip. For the residents of Bethlehem, ...

BETHLEHEM - The partial collapse of a slope at Fuera Bush Road and Ackerman Drive is endangering "critical infrastructure and threatens the health and ...

West Bank: Reverend Frank Chikane and Anglican Church Dean Michael Weeder are among the group of prominent clerics.

In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, the Church of the Nativity and all churches across the city have cancelled Christmas events due to the ...

The Holy Land is dark as the war continues against Hamas terrorists. Bethlehem has seen such grief before during the time of King Herod when he ordered the ...

Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas, without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger ...