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 ...

How Jesus’s Hometown Is Coping With War at Christmas Bethlehem is usually brimming with cheer—and tourists—this time of year. But the war in Gaza has turned it into a “ghost town.” ...

Fittingly, his first name, Issa, means Jesus in Arabic. "That's why I feel connected to this place, and I can't move," he says. "I've traveled many places, but Bethlehem has a special meaning for me." ...

Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the New Testament Gospels do not agree about the details of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem. Some do not ...

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both reference Bethlehem as the birthplace of Jesus, fulfilling a prophecy from the Old ...

In Bethlehem, the West Bank town revered as Jesus' birthplace, Christmas is all but canceled, in solidarity with Palestinians' suffering in Gaza.

A little star in Bethlehem marks the place where Christian tradition holds that Jesus Christ was born. Worshipers by the millions travel to the Church of the Nativity, a 4th-century Greek Orthodox ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927.

It might seem obvious that Jesus was born on December 25 in the town of Bethlehem, but experts say that this version of the story might not be correct.

Priests pray in the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity, the site where Christians believe Jesus was born, in the West Bank holy city of Bethlehem on December 18, 2019. Musa Al Shaer—AFP via ...