Staff writer Bill Broadway, who visited Bethlehem in October, offers these observations about the biblical birthplace of Jesus. My most vivid memory of Bethlehem is sitting on a stone bench in a ...

Hus believed congregants in his church should listen to Mass and read the Bible ... photos. Across town, vendors sold ornaments at Christkindlmarkt, in the shadow of rusting blast furnaces of ...

An ancient necropolis that once held more than 100 tombs from as far back as 4,000 years ago has been discovered near the Palestinian town of Bethlehem ... [See Photos of the Necropolis at Khalet ...

in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem on Dec. 24, 2018. (Credit: MUSA AL SHAER/AFP/Getty Images) Solemn-faced nuns and enthused tourists crossed themselves and bowed over their rosaries as ...

The West Bank city of Bethlehem—identified in the Bible as the birthplace of Jesus—held muted Christmas celebrations on Monday amid the war between Israel and Hamas. Christian worshipers pray ...

Christian take photos inside the Grotto of the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Monday, Nov. 23, 2020.

Photos / AP Pilgrims from around the world flocked to Bethlehem for what was believed to be the biblical West Bank city's largest Christmas celebrations in years. Hundreds of locals and foreign ...

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 ...