The banner has a picture of a woman fleeing bomb-shelled buildings, and printed in Arabic are the words “Let us arise and worship God.” The last ... Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem ...

Sunday School students moved the crowd to a hush when they took to the stage at Bethlehem Lutheran Church to perform the story of Christmas. The bright-eyed bunch used their own sweet twist ...

(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Rev. Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem staged his church’s nativity with the infant Jesus in the center of a pile of rubble ...

A church in Bethlehem has created a nativity scene resembling the situation in war-torn Gaza, as Christmas this year approaches amid Israel’s brutal onslaught on the Palestinian enclave. The nativity ...