Lots of Palestinians identify with Jesus as a refugee, he says, and reflect on the challenges he and his family “would have faced if they were around today, going from Nazareth to Bethlehem to ...

A Nativity scene inside the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem showed baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh ... them and praying for peace." An icon in the shape of an angle pointing ...

designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. “Dressing baby Jesus in a keffiyeh is not only a cynical ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh ...

Luke says these shepherds were notified about Jesus’ location in Bethlehem by angels. There is no guiding star in Luke’s story, nor do the shepherds bring gifts to baby Jesus. Luke also ...

While it is taken as given that Jesus was born on Christmas Day in the town of Bethlehem, this account likely doesn't match the historical reality. In fact, many historians and archaeologists don ...

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, were cancelled this year. The West Bank town was instead patrolled by Palestinian security forces amid the Israel-Hamas war.

A keffiyeh-wrapped Baby Jesus in nativity scenes ... symbol brings attention to the political realities of modern-day Bethlehem and the ongoing conflict in Gaza, prompting deeper questions ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — At Christmastime ... stood beside the small Nativity scene in his chapel. The baby Jesus sat amid flickering candles atop a pile of busted cement and dirty stone.

After consulting with King Herod of Judea, the men followed the star to Bethlehem, where they found the newborn baby Jesus. While the historicity of this event is difficult to verify, it raises a ...

The creche at a landmark Lutheran church in Bethlehem, West Bank, features baby Jesus surrounded by jagged chunks of stone — evoking bombed-out buildings. (Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times ...