and thus the model for how God relates to us and how we should relate to everyone else. Bethlehem, a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank of Israel, is canceling Christmas this year.

BETHLEHEM, Occupied West Bank, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Palestinian Christians held a sombre Christmas vigil in Bethlehem ... Bethlehem churches this year placed the models amid rubble and barbed ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town on Sunday, as Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war.

For the first time in recent history, Christmas has been canceled in Bethlehem. Although churches in this birthplace of Jesus will still hold religious services, the twinkling decorations that ...

The Shoppe, located at 437 Main St. in Bethlehem ... include model houses, model villages, candles, snow globes, bells and animal sculptures. Preparing the Shoppe’s Christmas merchandise ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — In the little town of Bethlehem, Christmas this year is barely a whisper. Palestinian scouts paraded through the streets but without their traditional instruments of ...

For Palestinians, Christmas in Bethlehem represents a window to the world. It has long been synonymous with joy and hope, and an occasion to commemorate the place of birth of the Christmas story ...

In the middle of Manger Square in the Old City of Bethlehem, a group of Palestinian teenage girls pose for selfies in front of a gigantic, shimmering Christmas tree. Visiting from Nazareth ...

Bethlehem, a town nearly synonymous with Christmas, is located in what is now the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Many Palestinians are too distressed by the war in Gaza to hold Christmas celebrations.

Christmas celebrations have been put on hold in Bethlehem this year as the war between Israel and Hamas carries on. Bethlehem, located in the West Bank, approximately six miles south of Jerusalem ...