I have also referred other friends to a Chrisitan vendor in Bethlehem to purchase olive wood sculptures and crafts. When I asked my mug-making Chrisitan Arab friend to take a picture together, he ...

Olive is also a proud grandmother to three grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Family and friends gather for Olive Wood’s 100th birthday celebration.

Louis Michel, the Catholic owner of St. Patrick Store, another Bethlehem shop that sells Christian merchandise, from locally made olive-wood nativity scenes and gold crosses to votive candles and ...

Workshops in Bethlehem where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days. On most Easters the shops lining the streets of the town would be bustling with tourists. But the ...

Bethlehem workshops where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days. On most Easters the shops lining the streets of the town known as Jesus’s birthplace would be bustling with ...

Their company, Holy City Crafts, travels the country showcasing and selling religious olive wood carvings made by Bethlehem artisans. And it’s not just about business. A whopping 85% of sales go ...

Bethlehem Catholic girls play Archbishop Wood on Saturday, March 15, 2025, in a PIAA 5A girls basketball quarterfinal at Reading High School’s Geigle Complex in Reading. Archbishop Wood won 69-35.

Kando’s store, planned as a chic and up-to-date religious goods store — selling traditional olive wood carvings, jewelry, mosaics, antiquities and more — now stands as a haunting monument of the ...

The city of Bethlehem is in dire straits. Christmas is the busiest time of year in the birthplace of Jesus, packed with pilgrims and tourists. But the streets are empty with the war in Gaza raging.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927.

Shops selling mother-o’-pearl jewellery and olive-wood handicrafts, restaurants, cafes, taxis drivers and tour guides have no business. Families are struggling.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927. But ...