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 ...

Just weeks before Christmas, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, located in the West Bank, unveiled a new display of the nativity scene that shows baby Jesus lying in a manger amid rubble.

In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches ... Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. “Dressing baby ...

(RNS) — A year ago, the Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of Christmas Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem in the occupied ... the city where the Bible says Jesus was born. It was a bold protest ...

Another Bleak Christmas in Bethlehem as Christian Families ... to protect themselves. In Isaac's church, the nativity scene has a figure of the baby Jesus lying in a pile of rubble.

(RNS) — The pro-Palestinian creche is intended to point out the disconnect between the idealized Bethlehem of ... St. Mark’s Episcopal Church features a Black baby Jesus swaddled in a ...

Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered ... the Palestinian pastor of a landmark Lutheran church in Bethlehem, the West Bank town ...

The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight ... first appeared last year in the town of Bethlehem outside the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, pastored by the prominent ...