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 ...

This holiday season in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, looks like it does every year. A Christmas tree stands by city hall with a nativity scene at its base. Twinkling lights adorn the city's main street.

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus ... the last stretch of the way to the Church of the Nativity. He was received by Christian representatives.

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now been placed in the nativity scene without the kefiah. In the Paul VI Hall ...

This year, the Nativity scenes were made by Bethlehem-based artisans. Representatives of the Palestinian Embassy to the Holy See, as well as special representatives of Palestinian leader Mahmoud ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP ... Palestinian security forces arranged barriers near the Nativity Church, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born, and a worker cleared ...