The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled ... Instead of their traditional musical march through the streets of Bethlehem, young scouts stood silently with flags.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled ... Instead of their traditional musical march through the streets of Bethlehem, young scouts stood silently ...

“Suddenly, in October, tourists disappeared from the streets. And now Bethlehem is completely closed from all directions,” he said, referring to the Israeli checkpoints that restrict movement ...

The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled ... Instead of their traditional march through the streets of Bethlehem, young scouts stood silently with flags.

Tourists converged on the streets, shops and stone buildings ... Christmas service at the Church of the Nativity in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Christmas eve ...

Hus believed congregants in his church should listen to Mass and read the Bible in their native ... of the putz to the historic Hotel Bethlehem on Main Street. Thousands turned up.

Sara is from Al Shuja’iya, a neighborhood of Gaza City less than 50 miles southwest of Bethlehem ... and also by donkey cart as if it were Biblical times. They had to pick their way over ...