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 ...

In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches ... Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. “Dressing baby ...

(RNS) — A year ago, the Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Evangelical Lutheran ... Church in New York City. Last Christmas his own church built a nativity scene depicting the Baby Jesus ...

A baby Jesus figure was placed on top of a pile of rubble in Bethlehem's Evangelical Lutheran Church, with sermons focusing on the Gaza war The little town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank ...

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 ...

Another Bleak Christmas in Bethlehem as Christian Families ... to protect themselves. In Isaac's church, the nativity scene has a figure of the baby Jesus lying in a pile of rubble.

An installation of a figure symbolising baby Jesus lying amidst the rubble in a grotto ahead of Christmas at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in the West Bank November 25, 2024.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — In the little town of Bethlehem, Christmas this year is barely a whisper. Palestinian scouts paraded ...

Thus, the identification of Bethlehem in Judea as the birthplace of Christ dates to the earliest days of the Church.' Based on that evidence, Dr Billington says he is 'convinced that Jesus Christ ...

(RNS) — A year ago, the Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in the occupied ... the city where the Bible says Jesus was born. It was a bold protest ...

(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 ...