Bishop Walter Scott Thomas Sr. led five decades of growth at New Psalmist Baptist Church and has ministered to thousands ...

Rare Zarb BBQ & Traditional Cooking in Bethlehem" "Inside Palestine’s Food Scene: Arabic BBQ, Zarb & Must-Try Street Food" ...

The church is topped with a star that is lit at night ... Those who do visit these two Nativity treasures can continue singing Little Town of Bethlehem’s later verses: How silently, how silently ...

The little town of Bethlehem has ... fourth-century Orthodox church of the Nativity, a few steps below the chancel is a small subterranean cave where a 14-point silver star on the marble floor ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy ... “Today, we consecrate once again our Church, our diocese, our land to Our Lady, Queen of Palestine,” Cardinal ...

Samar Hazboun for The New York Times Religious officials at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem are eagerly anticipating an announcement from Pope Francis in December that the Door of Mercy ...

marks the road that connects the traditional entrance of Bethlehem, near King David’s Wells with the Church of the Nativity, and extends along the Star Street through the Damascus Gate, or Qos ...

Bethlehem is home to the Church of the Nativity, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus. Christmas, normally the West Bank town's busy tourist season, was quiet and subdued this year. Bethlehem ...

When Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa spoke, in English, shortly after midnight on Monday, December 25, the crowd gathered in the Church of the Nativity in central Bethlehem applauded ...

Bethlehem was ... to Jesus Christ and his Church. One of the world’s most beloved saints, St. Francis of Assisi, loved Christmas so much that he created the first Nativity scene to make the ...

It is the site now of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem ... together with a depiction of an explosion, form a star, inspired by the Star of Bethlehem that led the Magi to Jesus’s birth.

It’s not known if there will be reference to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, however, Bethlehem’s annual nativity scene looked a little different this year. What is usually a celebratory scene ...