Pope Francis became increasingly vocal in condemning Israel’s war against Hamas in the months before his death, including a nativity scene featuring baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh, which was ...

He also made an unscheduled stop at the concrete security barrier between Bethlehem and Jerusalem ... A month earlier, a seasonal nativity scene at the Vatican — at which Francis prayed ...

to the cave of Bethlehem, &c. On the Sunday preceding Christmas, in order to celebrate the expected coming of the Messiah, they keep what they call the feast of the holy fathers, that is the ...

Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads the Christmas midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on ...

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Bethlehem’s first landmark was a towering, ten-storey car park. In normal times, it would hold more than 50 tourist buses. That day, there was just one. At the Church of the Nativity, one of the world ...

Parts of Bethlehem's besieged Church of the Nativity are in flames today as the week-long siege continues. Several hundred Palestinian gunmen and civilians fleeing Israeli tanks are holed up in the ...

The Christmas star shines in the sky above Bethlehem. Doodle illustration ... Joseph and Mary with little Jesus in a stable, a cave. A drawing of a nativity scene. Joseph and Mary with little Jesus in ...

This prehistoric "entrance to the otherworld" or "Gates to Hell" is tucked away in a hidden corner of a Roscommon field. This ...

Explore the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, where architecture meets geology and colonial histories in a quest for renewal and reparation.

Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...

DOS PILAS, GUATEMALA—In the 1990s, archaeologists made a grisly discovery when they entered a cave beneath the Maya site of Dos Pilas in Petén. The team encountered hundreds of fragmented human ...