There’s no place like Bethlehem at Christmas time. Horse-drawn carriages haul visitors up and down historic street Main Street, decked with holiday lights and garlands lighting up the sidewalks.

No tree-lighting ceremony. No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at Christmas. With the war in Gaza raging, this is a city in mourning. In perhaps the ...

Israel’s hope began to spread the rays of its dawning light in Bethlehem, at the first Christmas. "For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn," the Christmas carol says. But the light grew slowly.

NBC News' Jay Gray reports on a very different Christmas from Bethlehem amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

BETHLEHEM — The mood was somber, streets were deserted and stores were shuttered on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank city where Christian tradition says Jesus was born ...

Christmas in Bethlehem PA isn’t just about the magic-filled, small-town, holiday vibe that fills the air. The history, the charm and the unique Moravian heritage... Past Lane Travels - HIstory ...

A view of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church's Nativity scene in Bethlehem. This year, it portrays a baby Christ born under rubble and wrapped up in a Palestinian keffiyeh. BETHLEHEM ...

Herod’s massacre of the innocents in Matthew 2 challenges us to participate in the “groans” of God’s world. I detest the Christmas season—not so much for the commercialism that, after ...

VATICAN CITY — Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable in Bethlehem, Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the ...

motorcoach tours of Bethlehem at night, and horse-drawn carriage rides. Learn about Bethlehem's captivating history as you take a Christmas Stroll with a dedicated historian. In addition to these ...