This is a small strip of land inside Bethlehem, under Israeli control, completely surrounded by the wall. On Dec. 2, 2023, in the morning, the procession of vehicles, ...

Voters in the Albany County town of Bethlehem have voted to preserve more than 300 acres of farmland and open space in Glenmont and Selkirk. With the approval of Proposition 2, the town is free to ...

In Bethlehem, the West Bank town revered as Jesus' birthplace, Christmas is all but canceled, in solidarity with Palestinians' suffering in Gaza. In Bethlehem, few glad tidings for Palestinian ...

These holy sites “draw Christians as a presence of a positive future, like Mary in Bethlehem,” says Sadleir, a guide who has led several Latter-day Saint tours in the Holy Land. Mary “kept ...

Portion of the 153 acre Historic Heath Dairy Farm land off Route 9W, left, that the Bethlehem Town Board approved purchase of for protection purposes on Monday, June 13, 2022, in Bethlehem, N.Y.

The West Bank city of Bethlehem—identified in the Bible as the birthplace of Jesus—held muted Christmas celebrations on Monday amid the war between Israel and Hamas. Christian worshipers pray ...

In November 2022, voters gave the Albany County town of Bethlehem the green light to spend nearly $3 million to acquire a once-bustling 300-acre dairy farm. Heath's Dairy and Farm, spanning ...

There will be no Christmas celebration in Bethlehem this year. Bshara Nassar says it’s hard to celebrate the Prince of Peace when Israeli bombs are killing thousands of Palestinians every day ...