Despite the challenges, Bethlehem’s religious leaders continue to advocate for peace and hope. Khoury summed up the prevailing sentiment: “We try to plant hope, peace, and love in people’s ...

What celebrations do occur in Bethlehem, Isaac said ... declining to name the religious leader. “He dealt with us with clear condescension.” Isaac said he plans to publish a new book in ...

For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to war in Gaza.

Jesus was born in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago. Non-religious people are not an organised group of people but a diverse mix, with a wide variety of beliefs, values and ways of looking at the world.

W HEN Jesus of Nazareth was born in Bethlehem more than two thousand years ago, it was a miracle that he and his mother survived. It was not a happy birth. Saint Luke tells us that it was an awful ...

Janel Rice, senior pastor of Central Moravian Church — Bethlehem’s first congregation ... ancestors began as a refugee church fleeing religious persecution. The Nativity is also a poignant ...

Nuns walk along the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, on Christmas Eve, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Matias ...

but the festivities will be of a more strictly religious nature. The patriarch, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, told a crowd in Bethlehem he had just returned from Gaza, where he "saw ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927.

"Bethlehem in Ghajnsielem is a model for the intersection of cultural and religious identity turned into a opportunity for Gozo to be seen in a positive light locally and internationally," he said.