A shopkeeper waits for tourists Nov. 10, 2023, as other souvenir shops are closed in Jerusalem's Old City amid the ...

Catholic leaders in the Holy Land expressed cautious optimism this week that pilgrims will be able to return to the region ...

“But even they weren’t Christian.” Instead of pilgrimages, what little tourism that has come to Bethlehem over the past 14 months of the war has involved mostly non-Israeli history buffs ...

Shibly Kando stands in his shop Jothour of Kando in Bethlehem, West Bank, which was scheduled to open in mid-October of 2023. When Israel was attacked by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, he paused all ...

Raindrops hang from a branch at Five Rivers Environmental Education Center on Wednesday in Bethlehem. Birder Ted Chesnes of Albany spots red-tailed hawks as he joins local bird experts from the ...

The ongoing war in Gaza has scared away tourists and pilgrims, forcing Bethlehem’s economy, which depends heavily on tourism and religious pilgrimage, into a standstill. “We have no guests. Not one,” ...

Over the years people have travelled hundreds of miles to get to Bethlehem, although not so much on donkeys these days, apart from a local pilgrimage at the weekend from nearby Llandeilo.