Bethlehem Apostolic Temple said. Gifts set aside for single moms were also new this year. The next giveaway will be for Easter.

In Victorian days, Rice said, Bethlehem's residents would "go putzing ... shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny landscape decorated with pebbles, wood and moss. Children and parents ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Volunteers at Bethlehem's New Bethany spent Christmas morning serving brunch and handing out gifts to families. Many families rely on community kitchens like New Bethany to ...

BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories – On Bethlehem ... there are no tourists”, said Aboud, another souvenir shopkeeper, who didn’t give his last name. Similarly, in Jerusalem’s Old ...

Moravian missionaries named the Pennsylvania city of Bethlehem after the biblical birthplace of Jesus on Christmas Eve in 1741 ...

"Bethlehem is special at Christmas ... "A lot of families lost their business because, you know, there are no tourists", said Aboud, another souvenir shopkeeper, who didn't give his last name.

Being an artisan in Bethlehem isn’t just a job ... the shutters of the souvenir shops are all down. “I can still work in my workshop,” Robert Giacaman, a relative of Bassem and Jack ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP ... shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny landscape decorated with pebbles, wood and moss. Children and parents listened to the recorded voice of Janel Rice ...

Eleven days before Christmas, an outdoor firepit crackles next to the gift shop at South Farm in Bethlehem. A speaker plays carols as cars roll into the small parking lot. Nigel Manley ...