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 ...

Their company, Holy City Crafts, travels the country showcasing and selling religious olive wood carvings made by Bethlehem artisans ... the families who crafted the items Products include nativity ...

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 ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master ... on a pile of rubble, in his nativity scene set up in the West Bank, causing an ...

Normally a giant Christmas tree would light up the square while a stage for music and songs would be set ... from olive wood, told TNA. Palestinian marching bands in Bethlehem staged a silent march on ...

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus ... the last stretch of the way to the Church of the Nativity. He was received by Christian representatives.

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.

Some evidence shows that the use of olive wood in Bethlehem dates back to the fourth century during the construction of the Basilica of the Nativity, Adonia said. And Franciscan monks introduced ...

The Nativity scene featuring a keffiyeh that was unveiled at the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on December 7 was designed by Palestinian artists Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi of Bethlehem.

Pope Francis prays before the “Nativity ... scenes from olive wood has been a pillar of the Holy Land’s economic and cultural identity for centuries. The Star of Bethlehem that hung above ...

Last year, it was the Lutheran reverend, Munther Isaac, who placed a Baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh on a pile of rubble in the nativity scene he set ... Bethlehem, made with wood from the olive ...

On Saturday, Pope Francis unveiled a nativity ... of olive wood carving is a pillar of the community’s economic and cultural identity dating back to the 4th century. The Star of Bethlehem ...