Kosher beefcake Raz Nissim Cohen — known for traipsing through Tel Aviv shirtless to reveal his pecs of the Promised Land — ...

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black ...

Worshippers kneel on debris in Gaza, thousands barred from Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, and Eid is marked by military raids, arrests ...

We are the living stones of the church.' BETHLEHEM, West Bank (RNS) — Entering the Nativity Store gift shop ... Hamas massacre and the start of the Israel-Hamas war, Francis maintained close ...

Hundreds gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank as the ... visit to Gaza came as Pope Francis again criticised Israel’s actions in its ongoing war.

It is already the second Christmas in Bethlehem to be marked by Israel's war in Gaza ... runs a small store within sight of the Church of the Nativity. He can personally remember almost every ...

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem ... Church in the Holy Land, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The patriarch walked the last stretch of the way to the Church of the Nativity.

People light candles at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem [Mohammed Torokman/Reuters ... from leaving the territory to work in Israel, causing the economy there to contract by 25 percent.

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian keffiyeh with the child Jesus in the manger — but according to the project ...

Pope Francis stops for a brief prayer in front of the Bethlehem Nativity in the Vatican's Paul ... from the scene without explanation. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, the black-and-white checkered ...

Bethlehem lies 10 kilometres south of the city of Jerusalem, in the fertile limestone hill country of the Holy Land. Since at least the 2nd century AD people have believed that the place where the ...

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem were canceled amid the Israel-Hamas war. Bethlehem is home to the Church of the Nativity, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus. Christmas, normally the West ...