who welcomed diners and posed for photos. Across town, vendors sold ornaments at Christkindlmarkt, in the shadow of rusting blast furnaces of Bethlehem Steel illuminated in red and green.

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A worshipper walks through the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, on Christmas Eve ...

"For Christmas cards, it makes a nice picture having a comet and a tail ... "You can't follow a star from Baghdad to Jerusalem to Bethlehem," Weintraub said. "Stars don't do that.

A 400-pound, 4-foot-9-inch replica of a marshmallow Peep descended at a celebration Tuesday evening at the Steelstacks campus. Peeps marshmallow candies are manufactured by Just Born in Bethlehem, two ...