The cave, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Jerusalem, was famous in Byzantine times as a site of Christian ...

A woman prays before the image of Our Lady in the Milk Grotto in Bethlehem. Not only Christian women but also many Muslim women regard Mary as a model of feminine virtue and make pilgrimages here.

To read this book is to take a yearlong pilgrimage through a community and the food it loves. At the center of Kattan’s book is the Bethlehem market ... is his nod to the Salesian Bakery, a local ...

It is the oldest Christian church in daily use[I1 ... The outstanding universal value of the Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem, lies, in its association with the birthplace of ...

“But even they weren’t Christian.” Instead of pilgrimages, what little tourism that has come to Bethlehem over the past 14 months of the war has involved mostly non-Israeli history buffs ...

The flagstone plaza facing the Church of the Nativity, a pilgrimage ... a prominent Christian bookstore manager who had been threatened before his death by jihadist groups. In Bethlehem, a decree ...

As the war has emptied pilgrimage sites ... blow for their relatives in Bethlehem. Their sorrow is expressed by Rose Murra, one of the Palestinian Christian students at my Bible college, who ...

Christian leaders are encouraging pilgrimages to the Holy Land ... "We went to all these places that we read about in the Bible: Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem and the Galilee," Wood said.