Just weeks before Christmas, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, located in the West Bank, unveiled a new display of the nativity scene that shows baby Jesus lying in a manger amid rubble.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Jack Giacaman ... A short walk from the Church of the Nativity is the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church. There, the Rev. Munther Isaac and his congregation chose ...

By Yara Bayoumy and Samar Hazboun Reporting from Bethlehem in the West Bank ... the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church who created the crèche. “God is under the rubble in ...

NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with Rev. Munther Isaac of Bethlehem's Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church about Christmas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. And for the second year in a row ...

As war disrupts traditional festivities, Palestinian Christians see an opportunity to return to the Nativity story and share the gospel. At Immanuel Evangelical Church in Bethlehem, instead of ...

“I see God in the rubble,” said Munther Isaac, the Palestinian pastor of a landmark Lutheran church ... In Bethlehem, where many local Christians have relatives in Gaza, the Christmas holiday ...

Another Bleak Christmas in Bethlehem as Christian ... Munther Isaac, a pastor at Bethlehem's Lutheran Church, says local Muslim families have also been emigrating, squeezed by both financial ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, Bethlehem’s usually vibrant streets ... Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, senior pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, explained that the church’s depiction last ...

For 39 years, the members of Bethlehem Lutheran Church on West Grace Street have participated in a Mitten Tree program to support Greater Richmond's local Christmas Mother programs. The 2023 ...

The Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of Bethlehem’s Christmas Lutheran Church, addresses a vigil at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) ...

A view of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church's Nativity scene in Bethlehem. This year, it portrays a baby Christ born under rubble and wrapped up in a Palestinian keffiyeh. BETHLEHEM ...