These holy sites “draw Christians as a presence of a positive future, like Mary in Bethlehem,” says Sadleir, a guide who has led several Latter-day Saint tours in the Holy Land. Mary “kept ...

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 ...

Orthodox priests walk outside of the Nativity Church, where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born on the eve of the Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem, West Bank, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. (AP Photo ...

The commonly-held view is that Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem, near Jerusalem, in Judea, modern-day Israel-Palestine. Bethlehem still exists today and is located in the West Bank, part of the ...

DANIEL ESTRIN, HOST: On this Christmas Day, I'd like to take you to the little town of Bethlehem, where tradition says Jesus was born, and where Fadi Kattan was born.

Christmas was canceled in Bethlehem, the occupied West Bank city where historians and Christians alike believe Jesus was born. ... day after day, 1.9 million displaced. Hundreds of thousands of ...

Every day, I meet these people, ... Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but he was raised in Nazareth. I have never heard of the case of a refugee who was born in one country, ...

It's another Christmas in Bethlehem with the war still raging in Gaza. Palestinians in the city believed to be the birthplace of Jesus are hurting after more than a year of war.

In a normal year, he said, pilgrims and tourists would wait in multiple lines for hours to see the cave in which Jesus is said to have been born. There are 78 hotels and 5,700 rooms in Bethlehem ...

The war in Gaza has prompted the city, traditionally seen as the birthplace of Jesus, to tone down its Christmas celebrations. By Yara Bayoumy and Samar Hazboun Reporting from Bethlehem in the ...

It's another Christmas in Bethlehem with the war still raging in Gaza. Palestinians in the city believed to be the birthplace of Jesus are hurting after more than a year of war.