The little town of Bethlehem has cancelled Christmas celebrations for a second year while Israel’s war reigns in Gaza and West Bank Palestinians face Israeli settler attacks and army operations. There ...

Palestinian security forces have been deployed around the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, as the faithful prepared for another solemn Christmas overshadowed by the war in Gaza.

A Palestinian police woman stands guard as Greek Orthodox clergy gather in the Church of the Nativity, where Christians ...

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 ...

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday cheer was absent in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on ...

Hundreds of people gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to ... of the sombre mood as the war between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip ...

Hundreds gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank as the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land marked the second Christmas Midnight Mass under the shadow of the war in ...

Dearth of tourism since Hamas's October 7, 2023, attack leaves West Bank city with empty streets, empty shops and empty guestrooms at what should be most wonderful time of the year The post Somber ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem marked another somber ... Security forces arranged barriers near the Church of the Nativity, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born. The ...

But many Christians and pro-Israel advocates are outraged ... Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, invented the new take on the nativity scene last Christmas season.

A boy waits outside a souvenir shop near the Church of the Nativity ... works in either tourism or in jobs in Israel. The unemployment rate in Bethlehem is roughly 50%, said Salman.