There’s no place like Bethlehem at Christmas time. Horse-drawn carriages haul visitors up and down historic street Main Street, decked with holiday lights and garlands lighting up the sidewalks.

No tree-lighting ceremony. No extravagant decorations that normally bedeck the West Bank city of Bethlehem at Christmas. With the war in Gaza raging, this is a city in mourning. In perhaps the ...

VATICAN CITY — Recalling Jesus’ birth in a stable in Bethlehem, Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the ...

BETHLEHEM — The mood was somber, streets were deserted and stores were shuttered on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank city where Christian tradition says Jesus was born ...

A view of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church's Nativity scene in Bethlehem. This year, it portrays a baby Christ born under rubble and wrapped up in a Palestinian keffiyeh. BETHLEHEM ...

motorcoach tours of Bethlehem at night, and horse-drawn carriage rides. Learn about Bethlehem's captivating history as you take a Christmas Stroll with a dedicated historian. In addition to these ...

Israel’s hope began to spread the rays of its dawning light in Bethlehem, at the first Christmas. "For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn," the Christmas carol says. But the light grew slowly.

NBC News' Jay Gray reports on a very different Christmas from Bethlehem amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

Usually, just before Christmas, the central square in the occupied West Bank should be crowned with a dazzling Christmas tree, next to a nativity scene on a stage. Boy and Girl Scouts sing ...

Herod’s massacre of the innocents in Matthew 2 challenges us to participate in the “groans” of God’s world. I detest the Christmas season—not so much for the commercialism that, after ...