The war in Gaza has prompted the city, traditionally seen as the birthplace of Jesus, to tone down its Christmas celebrations. By Yara Bayoumy and Samar Hazboun Reporting from Bethlehem in the ...

Philippines — Inmates of the Eastern Samar Provincial Jail (ESPJ) here usually look forward to the Christmas season, expecting more visitors to give them gifts or buy their handcrafted lanterns.

TACLOBAN CITY — A remote village in Borongan City, Eastern Samar that was infested with communist rebels, were surprised by visitors a week before Christmas. Wearing Santa caps, soldiers brought ...

Five fishermen from Samar Island are also missing ... Thousands of people who were traveling over the Christmas period had their flights and ferries canceled due to the typhoon.

As we prepared to enter the novena before Christmas, we received the horrific ... At midday on December 16, an Israeli sniper murdered Naheda and Samar, mother and daughter, in the church courtyard.

Phanfone, known locally as Typhoon Ursula, first made landfall on Eastern Samar province on Tuesday ... widespread travel disruption over the busy Christmas period. The region is majority Catholic ...

A friend in Samar asked me to buy one for her ... They had momentarily cleared out their garden section to make room for Christmas decors. All that was left behind were hand-sized tolls that ...

Samar umabot hanggang bubong According to the latest bulletin of weather bureau Pagasa, the shear line will dump heavy to intense rain from Monday to Tuesday, Christmas eve, particularly in ...

With only a few weeks until Christmas many event organizers ... In a chat with The C.E.O of the company, Samar susu koder, she said that the X’mas Fun Park is an annual activity organized ...

Samar Hazboun for The New York Times Religious ... Bethlehem’s mayor struggled to express any hope over the upcoming Jubilee. Christmas Eve is Bethlehem’s biggest night of the year, but ...