Visitors love to come at Christmas, when a crowded Bethlehem celebrates its most famous date at the Church of the Nativity in Manger square. But the town hosts tourists year round. In the summer ...

Pat Olmsted, a 64-year-old teacher from Sugar Land, Texas, was celebrating her first Christmas in Bethlehem and broke into tears as she stood in Manger Square. "It just gives me a whole true ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Right on schedule, Bethlehem public works cut down the Christmas tree that will stand tall outside of city hall this holiday season. It's the first of three trees that will be cut ...

The manger scene has a special place near the Christmas tree or in another place ... which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his ...

Musikfest Cafe is at 101 Founders Way, Bethlehem. For tickets, visit Christmas City Tasting’s event page.

VATICAN CITY — One of Pope Francis's popemobiles is being transformed into a mobile health clinic for children in the Gaza Strip, fulfilling one of his final wishes, the Vatican's official media ...

The years-long project to revamp the Portland International Airport reached another milestone, the week of May 19, when the footprint of Phase 2 was completed. That footprint, in the northwest corner ...

He had also controversially installed a Nativity scene during Christmas festivities depicting a baby Jesus swaddled in a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian garment now heavily associated with pro ...

Pope Francis arrives to celebrate mass in Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, believed by many to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem May 25, 2014 ...

By Adam Rasgon Reporting from Jerusalem When Pope Francis visited Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in 2014, he crisscrossed the traditional birthplace of Jesus in a white popemobile ...