The 92-year-old retired garment worker had been expecting the troupe of white-robed men from St. Michael the Archangel Orthodox Church, who visit parishioners on Jan. 6, Christmas Eve to Orthodox ...

Wigilia, as the Christmas Eve supper is called ... the Gospel of Luke that recounts the birth of the Christ child in Bethlehem, setting the tone for a tradition steeped in spirituality.

In a flash, it's over. The presents are open. Dinner was served. Christmas has passed for another year. With the holiday behind us, thoughts turn to when to take down the Christmas tree and ...

Pope Francis presides over the Christmas Eve mass at St Peter's Basilica in ... the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, observations of the holiday have been muted.

They celebrate Christmas by going to church on Christmas Eve, enjoying Christmas Day with gifts, dinner and movies ... Martin Soltan, a Bethlehem police detective, recognizes Christmas with ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically ...

He says he used to travel to Bethlehem to visit his ... festive season and stay up late on Christmas Eve, buying cookies, cakes and other sweets. “The celebrations would begin after midnight. We would ...

Christmas Eve’s Feast of the Seven Fishes is ... or the seven days it took Jesus and Mary to travel to Bethlehem. An appetizer of clams at Valenca, located at 665 Monroe Ave, Elizabeth, on ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically ...

Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the West Bank ...

The biblical town of Bethlehem marked a quiet Christmas ... 3,000 people in Argentina sat down for a festive Christmas open-air charity dinner in central Buenos Aires, outside the national ...