Normally, loud Christmas music blares out from here through the entire old town of Bethlehem. But this year there is silence: No Christmas carols, no Christmas tree, no decorations. Only a few ...

“This year, we limited our joy,” Bethlehem ... in preparation for this festive season,” she said. In Bethlehem, Christmas was not just a celebration for Christians – it was a national ...

Unlike ice cream trucks, the Bethlehem bookmobile is a year-round visitor to neighborhoods and community spaces throughout the city, as well as surrounding municipalities like Fountain Hill ...

A Palestinian woodcarver works on a wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ, made from olive tree, at the Zacharia's family workshop ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Easter and Christmas ... by 25% in the past year. Bassem Giacaman, another carver who owns a store looking out directly over Bethlehem’s Manger ...

Remi Benali / Corbis Feuding monks at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem don't just cast the ... The occasional brawls at the 1,700-year-old basilica, believed to mark the birthplace of ...

The Shiras Planetarium was built attached to the new Marquette Senior High School in 1964. Superintendent Henry Bothwell had ...

Saturday is National Record Store Day, bringing music lovers out to their local shops. MONROE COUNTY, Pa. — People are ...

In a glass-fronted, sunlit studio on a wooded ravine in the San Fernando Valley, Tyrus Wong spent summer weekends painting Christmas imagery ... in 1920 as a 9-year-old, the 1882 Chinese Exclusion ...

In North Carolina, lawmakers are considering adopting the Moravian star, a multi-pointed decoration that symbolizes the Star ...

Nearly two years after a fire damaged a much-loved Bethlehem pizza shop, the family-run business is transitioning to a new location in the Christmas ... to open early next year, will operate ...

(AP Photo/Leo Correa) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] Bethlehem workshops ... (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Easter and Christmas celebrations are usually boons for ...