Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, have been canceled again this year due to war in Gaza.

Palestinian security forces have been deployed around the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, as the faithful prepared for ...

Faith leaders and residents in Bethlehem are grappling with how to mark the festive holiday while fellow Palestinians ...

Christians gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark a solemn Christmas overshadowed by war, as Pope Francis led mass in the Vatican. In Bethlehem, in ...

Hundreds gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank as the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy ...

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday ...

The war, the violence in the occupied West Bank it has spurred and the lack of festivities has deeply hurt Bethlehem’s ...

The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the ...

People light candles at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters ... from leaving the territory to work in Israel, causing the economy there to contract by 25 percent.

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity scene in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. It depicted Jesus' birth ...

The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Christmas were nowhere ...

Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in ...