The street’s name also piqued my interest. Sometime later I located the street just off Nativity Square, the hub of Bethlehem ...

A worshipper walks through the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, on Christmas Eve ...

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

Later during the Christmas season, you might want to watch the 1949 film Come to the Stable that tells the story of Regina ...

This Christmas, while massive crowds of pilgrims will flock to Rome for the opening of the Jubilee year, I'll be spending the ...

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

Worshippers gathered in the West Bank town of Bethlehem in the early hours of Christmas morning while the war in nearby Gaza ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity scene in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. It depicted Jesus' birth ...

Hundreds gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank as the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy ...

In the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel, Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took ...

Here, on Christmas Eve in 1818, Father Joseph Mohr first strummed Silent Night on his guitar, accompanied by a melody ...

Christmas is a bleak event in Bethlehem in 2024 -- there is no traditional Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church ...