New Bethany says it has acquired the former Episcopal Diocese building in Bethlehem to expand its services and meet growing community needs.

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen ... Two years ago, it was the Lutheran pastor Munther Isaac who first had the ...

An installation of a figure symbolising baby Jesus lying amidst the rubble in a grotto ahead of Christmas at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in the West Bank November 25, 2024.

A baby Jesus figure was placed on top of a pile of rubble in Bethlehem's Evangelical Lutheran Church, with sermons focusing on the Gaza war The little town of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank ...

a local Lutheran pastor. "But Bethlehem is a sad town in solidarity with our siblings in Gaza." At his church, the Nativity scene shows baby Jesus lying in a pile of rubble. In the run-up to ...

(RNS) — A year ago, the Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in the occupied ... the city where the Bible says Jesus was born. It was a bold protest ...

In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches ... Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. “Dressing baby ...

The figure of the baby ... not be. Jesus Christ displayed on a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf gifted by the Palestinian Higher Committee of Churches Affairs, as part of the "Nativity of Bethlehem ...

However, Renaissance and Baroque artists began to situate Jesus’s birth among ... The 2023 nativity scene at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church of Bethlehem (photo by Rev. Dr. Munther ...

The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight ... first appeared last year in the town of Bethlehem outside the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, pastored by the prominent ...

(RNS) — The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December ... last year in the town of Bethlehem outside the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, pastored by the prominent ...