“This has to be the last Christmas that is so sad,” he told hundreds of people gathered in Manger Square, where normally tens of thousands would congregate. PHOTOS: Bethlehem marks a second ...

In the middle of Manger Square in the Old City of Bethlehem, a group of Palestinian teenage girls pose for selfies in front of a gigantic, shimmering Christmas tree. Visiting from Nazareth ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927. But as ...

Bethlehem Plans Another Somber Christmas Under the Shadow of War in Gaza BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items ...

Bethlehem's Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity is largely deserted and souvenir shops are shuttered. Once again, there are no plans to put up the traditional light-festooned ...

Bassem Giacaman, another carver who owns a store looking out directly over Bethlehem’s Manger Square, perks up when a customer enters his factory. U.S. President Donald Trump put the import ...

Joseph Giacaman, owner of one of Bethlehem's best-located shops right on Manger Square, said he now only opens once or twice a week "to clean up", for lack of customers. "A lot of families lost ...

We are in the place where Jesus was born, and it is imperative that every person in the world who loves Jesus to help the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem marked ... The festive lights and giant tree that normally decorate Manger Square were missing, as were the throngs of foreign tourists that usually fill the ...

Bethlehem (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – On Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West ...