Nearly 300 years later, Moravians continue celebrating their Christmas season traditions in Bethlehem. They include the "putz," a Nativity scene that tells the story of Christ's birth with ...

(BETHLEHEM, West Bank) — 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.

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ as described in the Bible, in the ...

"Setting up a Nativity scene in your home allows your home to become another Bethlehem, a place to welcome Christ at Christmas," he added. "Nativity scenes should draw our hearts and minds to the ...

The "Nativity ... the star of Bethlehem, the flight to Egypt, and Herod's slaughter of the innocents. About those magi. Nowhere does Matthew mention their names, or their backgrounds.

and nativity scenes have been restricted to private properties. The tightening of security around Bethlehem since the start of the war, combined with economic difficulties, has led many local ...

Bethlehem’s residents and visitors must rely once again on churches to celebrate Christmas. In the recently renovated fourth-century Orthodox church of the Nativity, a few steps below the ...

(AP Photo/Nasser Nasser) Palestinian security forces, meanwhile, arranged barriers near the Nativity Church, built atop the ...

Midnight mass at the Nativity Church in Bethlehem Palestinians and foreigners attend midnight mass at the Nativity Church in ...

and nativity scenes have been restricted to private properties. The tightening of security around Bethlehem since the start of the war, combined with economic difficulties, has led many local ...