Louis Michel, the Catholic owner of St. Patrick Store, another Bethlehem shop that sells Christian merchandise, from locally made olive-wood nativity scenes and gold crosses to votive candles and ...

Their company, Holy City Crafts, travels the country showcasing and selling religious olive wood carvings made by Bethlehem artisans ... the families who crafted the items Products include nativity ...

Archbishop Wood defeats Bethlehem Catholic on Saturday, March 15, 2025, in a PIAA 5A girls basketball quarterfinal at Reading High School’s Geigle Complex in Reading. Bethlehem Catholic’s ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master ... on a pile of rubble, in his nativity scene set up in the West Bank, causing an ...

Normally a giant Christmas tree would light up the square while a stage for music and songs would be set ... from olive wood, told TNA. Palestinian marching bands in Bethlehem staged a silent march on ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP ... Security forces arranged barriers near the Church of the Nativity, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born. A young boy stood holding a pile of ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP ... Security forces arranged barriers near the Church of the Nativity, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born. A young boy stood holding ...

Bethlehem, West Bank – Bethlehem marked another ... Security forces arranged barriers near the Church of the Nativity, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born.

Bethlehem is not expecting the usual festivities ... Palestinian security forces arranged barriers near the Nativity Church, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born, and ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — 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.

Some evidence shows that the use of olive wood in Bethlehem dates back to the fourth century during the construction of the Basilica of the Nativity, Adonia said. And Franciscan monks introduced ...

For each visitor attending the annual live Nativity, the special take-away ... the timeless story will be told again. Bethlehem Village is set to take place from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and 5 to ...