No Christmas market on Star Street ... I’ve met many people in Bethlehem who point to the manger. On Milk Grotto Road, I found Jack Giacaman carving nativity sets. His father’s family ...

Originally erected in 1937 to replicate the star that the Magi followed so intentionally to find the Baby Jesus lying in a manger ... Ramsey ) “Bethlehem did not create Christmas, Christmas ...

Vinh said he always comes to Bethlehem to mark Christmas, but this year was especially sobering. He gazed at a nativity scene in Manger Square with a baby Jesus wrapped in a white shroud ...

Bethlehem, a town nearly synonymous with Christmas, is located in what is now the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Many Palestinians are too distressed by the war in Gaza to hold Christmas celebrations.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank >> Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas, without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger Square, after officials in Jesus ...

That prompted some to dub the sight a “Christmas Star,” and others ... he painted the Star of Bethlehem as a comet burning bright above Jesus in the manger. Wikimedia Commons In the past ...

Once the patriarch arrives in Bethlehem, he will walk down Star Street ... Image Manger Square, in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, on Christmas Eve 2022.Credit ...

BETHLEHEM — To the believers, what happened 2,000 years ago in this city is not just history. It is also a story of redemption, a story of love, a story of surrender, a story of humility, a ...