According to the Christian Christmas story, Jesus was born in a lowly stable in Bethlehem because there was no more room in the local inns. Around 2,000 years later, almost all of Bethlehem's ...

Colm Flynn reports from Greccio, and the art historian Dr Geri Parlby explores the nativity scene’s fascinating story and enduring appeal. There will be no Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem ...

Bethlehem, the city in the occupied West Bank that Christians believe is the birthplace of Jesus Christ, marks another solemn Christmas under ... the Church of Nativity’s famed midnight mass ...

Remi Benali / Corbis Feuding monks at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem don't just cast ... The highly publicized fight at Christmas two years ago was essentially a territorial dispute.