Broad St. in downtown Bethlehem, co-owner Jessica Loney said. The shop occupies a renovated space on the ground floor of a retail and office building, a few doors down from Twisted Olive and ...

Louis Michel, the Catholic owner of St. Patrick Store, another Bethlehem shop that sells Christian merchandise, from locally made olive-wood nativity scenes and gold crosses to votive candles and ...

in Bethlehem, some of the students used spent bullet casings in their work, and olive groves were a recurring feature. The project didn’t end there. Rather than file the artworks away on a shelf ...

Workshops in Bethlehem where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days. On most Easters the shops lining the streets of the town would be bustling with tourists.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Palestinian man carves an olive-wood sculpture ...

A Michigan couple is using their small business to support Palestinian Christian families in Bethlehem, bringing handcrafted olive wood carvings to Indiana over the weekend. From Bethlehem to the ...

Archbishop Wood defeats Bethlehem Catholic on Saturday, March 15, 2025, in a PIAA 5A girls basketball quarterfinal at Reading High School’s Geigle Complex in Reading. Bethlehem Catholic’s ...

The city of Bethlehem is in dire straits ... No one is coming to buy his rosary beads or olive-wood crosses. He says he doesn't even open during the week anymore, and is getting by off savings ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927.

In a normal year, Bethlehem counted on 1.5 million visitors, according to the Palestinian tourism ministry. Shops selling mother-o’-pearl jewellery and olive-wood handicrafts, restaurants ...

Bethlehem Plans Another Somber Christmas Under the Shadow of War in Gaza BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items ...

The Nativity Store in Manger Square in Bethlehem has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to pilgrims visiting the Church of the Nativity, where Christianity holds Jesus was born ...