along with several local institutions in Bethlehem. It was not the main nativity scene displayed in St. Peter’s Square. The unveiling of the provocative nativity scene came after a series of ...

The manger scene has a special place near the Christmas ... to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his ...

Bethlehem, the West Bank city ... where Jesus is believed to have been born.” This scene is commonly associated with a funeral march rather than a Christmas parade. The absence of foreigners from ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter's Square as a Christmas ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — 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. But as ...