Just weeks before Christmas, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, located in the West Bank, unveiled a new display of the nativity scene that shows baby Jesus lying in a manger amid rubble.

Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered ... the Palestinian pastor of a landmark Lutheran church in Bethlehem, the West Bank town ...

Although Bethlehem is located in modern-day Palestine, Jesus was very much not a Palestinian. Many Christian faith leaders are offended, included Pastor Mark Burns of Harvest Faith Center in ...

Volunteers from several churches and the surrounding community bring Bethlehem to life on the night that baby Jesus was born. “It’s not like it’s one church or group that could pull this off ...

The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight ... first appeared last year in the town of Bethlehem outside the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, pastored by the prominent ...

The creche at a landmark Lutheran church in Bethlehem, West Bank, features baby Jesus surrounded by jagged chunks of stone — evoking bombed-out buildings. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times ...

(RNS) — The pro-Palestinian creche is intended to point out the disconnect between the idealized Bethlehem of ... St. Mark’s Episcopal Church features a Black baby Jesus swaddled in a ...