Just weeks before Christmas, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, located in the West Bank, unveiled a new display of the nativity scene that shows baby Jesus lying in a manger amid rubble.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Jack Giacaman ... A short walk from the Church of the Nativity is the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church. There, the Rev. Munther Isaac and his congregation chose ...

None of that is happening because we’re mourning,” Rev. Munther Isaac, the pastor of Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, told NBC News. Next to the altar where Isaac delivers ...

Another Bleak Christmas in Bethlehem ... West Bank like between Bethlehem, Ramallah, Jericho, Hebron," Afteem said. Munther Isaac, a pastor at Bethlehem's Lutheran Church, says local Muslim ...

Munther Isaac is a Palestinian theologian and pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Beit Sahour. He serves as academic dean of ...