Worshippers have prayed at the believed birthplace of Jesus Christ (Picture: AP) Santa was spotted saying hello to Pierbattista Pizzaballa (Picture: EPA) The war in Gaza has deterred tourists and ...

Kaffiyeh-clad baby Jesus is showing up in manger scenes all ... symbolizing the mass destruction in Gaza and the gulf between the coming birthday of the Prince of Peace and the lack thereof.

The war, the violence in the occupied West Bank it has spurred and the lack of festivities has deeply hurt Bethlehem’s ...

the birth of Jesus Christ. As the war between Israel and Hamas rages around 100km (60 miles) away in Gaza –leaving thousands of Palestinians dead and nearly two million displaced and trapped in ...

The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual ...

The display features a baby Jesus, lying on a manger lined with the ... people of Ukraine and cited ‘inhumane attacks’ in Gaza. In the Middle East conflict, he has tended to take a balanced ...

Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in ...