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

Later during the Christmas season, you might want to watch the 1949 film Come to the Stable that tells the story of Regina ...

The Christmas story is the world’s greatest news story. Indeed, the birth of Jesus Christ two thousand years ago is the ...

For the second consecutive year, the city of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank is commemorating Christmas this year without ...

BETHLEHEM, — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas ... volunteers from the faith-based ministry Stella Maris visited ...

St. Francis was inspired, it is believed, by his pilgrimage to the Holy Land to depict the scene of Christ’s birth in a literal way. As his first biographer, Brother Thomas of Celano, explains it, St.

This scene is commonly associated with a funeral march rather ... Not one,” Reuters quoted Joey Canavati, owner of the Alexander Hotel, as saying. “This is the worst Christmas ever. Bethlehem is shut ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP ... ministry Stella Maris visited seven ships docked there on Christmas Eve to deliver Nativity scenes and the local specialty of turrón (nougat candy) to seafarers.

Georgia's little town of Bethlehem becomes a hotbed of ... after a local Methodist church and is always the scene of special activity around Christmas. Many of the street names, including Star ...

Moravian missionaries named the Pennsylvania city of Bethlehem after the biblical birthplace of Jesus on Christmas Eve in 1741 ...

A man was stabbed inside a Bethlehem home late on Christmas night, leading to the arrest of a juvenile suspect, police said.