Christmas festivities in Bethlehem have been toned down for a second ... service — one of several on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The 12th-century monument reopened earlier this month ...

It's Christmas in Bethlehem, which Christians celebrate as the birthplace of Jesus. For the second year in a row, official celebrations have been canceled. Palestinian leaders say they cannot ...

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday cheer was absent in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on ...

"Normally on this day you would find 3,000 or 4,000 ... "We want to show the world that Bethlehem is not having Christmas as usual", he said. Prayers will go on, and the Catholic Church's ...

HENDERSONVILLE — For 41 years, the Bounty of Bethlehem community Christmas day dinner has brought the Henderson County community together, and this year, the event’s message of unity and hope ...

“We hope by next year at the same day we’d be able to celebrate Christmas at our homes and go to Bethlehem,” said Najla Tarazi, a displaced woman. “We hope to celebrate in Jerusalem ...

And St. John’s Lutheran Church of Highland in McCandless wants to bring it to life this Christmas season. “A Visit to Bethlehem ... in the village vary from day to day, and in the case ...

"Normally on this day you would find 3,000 or 4,000 people inside the ... "We want to show the world that Bethlehem is not having Christmas as usual", he said. Prayers will go on, and the Catholic ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP ... President Frank-Walter Steinmeier rewrote his annual recorded Christmas Day speech to address the attack. He plans to acknowledge that “there is grief, pain ...