Other scenes of this Bethlehem Christmas, however, could be found nowhere else. To get to town, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, the Roman Catholic Church's highest official in the Holy Land ...

It is a gloomy atmosphere," he said. "You see smiling faces, but inside we are not smiling." More than 3,000 Christians, about 10 percent of Bethlehem's Christian population, have left the town ...

Christians in Bethlehem have been holding a muted celebration to mark Christmas amid the ongoing Israel Gaza war. Worshippers lit candles and prayed at the nativity scene, with the figures ...

Around the scene, multilingual panels call for a ceasefire and an end to the massacre against the Palestinian people. Hana Hanania, the mayor of Bethlehem, said the sculpture aims to showcase ...

With tourists staying away, Bethlehem’s biggest souvenir vendors have begun advertising their goods, including olive wood carvings of manger scenes and tree decorations, on the Internet and in ...