The leaders urged “priests and the faithful to focus more on the spiritual meaning of Christmas in their pastoral activities ... in Jerusalem. Before the Hamas attacks in early October ...

Map locates the West Bank city of Bethlehem in Israel, southest of Jerusalem ... their congregations to forgo “unnecessarily festive activities.” Instead, the statement said, priests and ...

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and other religious ... war by “foregoing any unnecessarily festive activities.” Christmas festivities in Bethlehem typically last from mid-November through ...

Another estimated 1,000 terrorists were killed in Israel during the October ... any unnecessarily festive activities,” they wrote. At the altar of Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran Church ...

Their first daughter was born with a heart problem and was operated on a few days later in Israel. They were supposed to return after the rehabilitation, but the war has trapped them in Bethlehem. F ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Officials ...

At Immanuel Evangelical Church in Bethlehem ... Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem asked Christians in the region to avoid “unnecessarily festive” Christmas activities this year.

Meanwhile, an Israeli-built wall partially encircles Bethlehem, cutting it off from Jerusalem and stifling homebuilding and urban growth. Israel says the wall is a necessary security measure to ...

JERUSALEM _ Bethlehem, the traditional site of the birth of Jesus, saw thousands of pilgrims flock to the city last year for Christmas celebrations, but has canceled all of this year’s holiday ...

then it could easily lay south by the time they reached Jerusalem, having moved from its position in the east as it rose. As they travelled to Bethlehem, the star would have stayed roughly ahead ...