Here’s the story behind ‘O Little Town ... Bethlehem and visited, according to the story, the spot where Jesus was born. Three years later, he wrote the poem for a Christmas Sunday-school service and ...

In a letter written to gospel-music publisher Hubert R ... The inspiration for ''O Little Town of Bethlehem" probably came to Brooks on Christmas Eve in 1865 in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity ...

O Little Town of ... closing," she said. But Bethlehem, historically, had other things going for it besides blast furnaces. One was music. Among other attractions, the town boasts The Bach Choir ...

On Christmas Eve in 1865, Phillips Brooks (1835-93), a gangling young American Episcopalian, rode the perilous journey from Jerusalem to Bethlehem ... the girl replied: "O how happy the angels ...

The little town of Bethlehem is jammed with a big-city problem. Traffic snarls streets everywhere, including around the church marking the spot where Jesus was born. And now, with Christmas upon ...

A vicar has banned the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem because it does not represent the modern-day reality of the war-torn city. Mr Coulter also showed the congregation a nativity ...