Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day. Gone was the usually bustling place filled with foreign tourists and pilgrims flocking to ...

It is supposed to be a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ but we get caught ... It was approximately a 90-mile trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem. In those days, people would travel about ...

The star is mentioned twice, and the text implies the first sighting was at the time of Jesus's birth.

including Mary’s annunciation and the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus. In Victorian days, Rice said, Bethlehem’s residents would “go putzing” — visiting each other’s ...

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

Security forces arranged barriers near the Church of the Nativity, built atop the spot where Jesus ... at the same day we’d be able to celebrate Christmas at our homes and go to Bethlehem ...

Tabash said he continues to open the store every day, but often ... to give birth to Jesus in a stable because there was no room at the inn. Today, nearly all of Bethlehem’s 5,500 hotel rooms ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the ... “And these days, we are also sending our message ...

The regular cheering was absent, and no Christmas tree or decorations covered the walls of the Church, widely revered as the birthplace of Jesus, due to the ongoing war in Gaza. The Head of the ...

It last happened on December 21, 2020, just a few days before ... the estimated time of Jesus’ birth between 6 BC and 4 B.C.,” said Kim. The mystery of the Star of Bethlehem will continue ...

“A Visit to Bethlehem,” a live reenactment of the time and birth of Jesus, will take place at the ... of the people in the village vary from day to day, and in the case of the Holy Family ...