Just weeks before Christmas, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, located in the West Bank, unveiled a new display of the nativity scene that shows baby Jesus lying in a manger amid rubble.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Jack Giacaman ... A short walk from the Church of the Nativity is the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church. There, the Rev. Munther Isaac and his congregation chose ...

(AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) Rev. Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem staged his church’s nativity with the infant Jesus in the center of a pile of rubble ...

By Yara Bayoumy and Samar Hazboun Reporting from Bethlehem in the West Bank ... the pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church who created the crèche. “God is under the rubble in ...

NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with Rev. Munther Isaac of Bethlehem's Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church about Christmas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. And for the second year in a row ...

Another Bleak Christmas in Bethlehem as Christian ... Munther Isaac, a pastor at Bethlehem's Lutheran Church, says local Muslim families have also been emigrating, squeezed by both financial ...

None of that is happening because we’re mourning,” Rev. Munther Isaac, the pastor of Bethlehem’s Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, told NBC News. Next to the altar where Isaac ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, Bethlehem’s usually vibrant streets ... Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac, senior pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church, explained that the church’s depiction last ...

For 39 years, the members of Bethlehem Lutheran Church on West Grace Street have participated in a Mitten Tree program to support Greater Richmond's local Christmas Mother programs. The 2023 ...

The Rev. Munther Isaac, pastor of Bethlehem’s Christmas Lutheran Church, addresses a vigil at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. (RNS photo/Jack Jenkins) ...