My struggle now, as it was when I was a child, is finding the works that excel without grading on a curve, works that aren’t ...

Birth. We’ve all been there. But not everyone has been captured on camera on arrival. For centuries it was a woman’s world, a ...

ArtsQuest, the Bethlehem nonprofit that has staged Musikfest annually since 1984, announced Tuesday that Musikfest 2022 set a new attendance record with 1,240,000 visitors, more than 16 times ...

Some 2,000 years later, pilgrims usually flock to the reputed location of that stable in Bethlehem's Byzantine-era Church of the Nativity, where most Christmases there are joyful displays of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that was missing its eyebrow-raising signature element: a ...

This year, the Nativity scenes were made by Bethlehem-based artisans. Representatives of the Palestinian Embassy to the Holy See, as well as special representatives of Palestinian leader Mahmoud ...

Yet I believe if Jesus can be born in a stable, maybe he can also be born in me." Far too many Christmas cards have convinced us that the Bethlehem stable was a warm, cozy, and pretty place.

What better time than Christmas, the celebration of Christ’s birth as a tiny baby in a Bethlehem stable when there was no room at the inn, for each of us to step up and help mothers and children ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter's Square as a Christmas ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter's Square as a Christmas ...

Andrew Medichini. Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter's ...