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.

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 ...

Although Bethlehem is located in modern-day Palestine, Jesus was very much not a Palestinian. Many Christian faith leaders are offended, included Pastor Mark Burns of Harvest Faith Center in ...

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 ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Jack ... he's surprised at the international interest that his church has received as a result of its display of baby Jesus amid the rubble. "We're happy that we were ...

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 ...

(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 ...