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.

Athena, baby Arthur and Sam Reinhard play the Mary, Jesus and Joseph characters in St. Andrews Lutheran Church’s Bethlehem Walk nativity pageant Dec. 2, 2023. Sam Reinhard is associate pastor at ...

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 ...

Christ in the Rubble nativities have popped up around the world after a Palestinian pastor, Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, invented the new take on the nativity ...

Munther Isaac, a pastor at Bethlehem's Lutheran Church ... to Israeli settlers to protect themselves. In Isaac's church, the nativity scene has a figure of the baby Jesus lying in a pile of ...

The 2023 nativity scene at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church of Bethlehem (photo by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac and used with permission) Much like the long history of nativity scenes themselve ...

Join the members of St. Paul, St. Matthew, Bethany and Grace Lutheran churches ... presentations at the nativity will take place every 15 minutes. Meet the shopkeepers of Bethlehem, King Herod ...

In many homes, the Nativity scene, illustrating the birth of Jesus, is probably the most important holiday decoration. On Friday, Dec. 6, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Appleton, the Nativity scene ...

(KOLN) - On Dec. 14 and 15, Peace Lutheran Church members set up their very own Bethlehem at the Red Willow ... and she came up with the idea of a living nativity.” Phil’s wife Janice ...