Every year at Christmas, the hilltop town of Bethlehem comes alive with holiday cheer. Parades light up the cobblestone alleyways around the Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where Jesus ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rev Munther Isaac by this year's nativity scene of a baby in a pile of rubble, symbolising bombing in the Gaza Strip - Quique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot ...

The Middle East. The West Bank. Bethlehem. The place where Jesus was born. The place where the angels sang, “Peace on earth, good will to men.” But the Middle East is not a place of peace. However, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Officials in ...

City officials in the birthplace of Jesus Christ are tearing down Christmas decorations in solidarity with Palestinians amid Israel’s continued invasion of Gaza. Bethlehem, an ancient city located in ...

Have you ever had one of those birthdays when you wanted people to throw a party for you? You imagined getting some nice presents, and even hinted at the ones you wanted. Every time you went out with ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh, surrounded ...