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.

None of that is happening because we’re mourning,” Rev. Munther Isaac, the pastor of Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran ...

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) ...

Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, invented the new take on the nativity scene last Christmas season. “This is what Christmas looks like in Palestine,” Munther ...

A baby Jesus figure was placed on top of a pile of rubble in Bethlehem's Evangelical Lutheran Church ... nor the giant Christmas tree in front of the Nativity Church, built over the spot where ...

Munther Isaac is a Palestinian theologian and pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Beit Sahour. He serves as academic dean of ...