Faith leaders and residents in Bethlehem are grappling with how to mark the festive holiday while fellow Palestinians ...

Did Joseph and Mary really need to go to Bethlehem because of a Roman census, or is this unhistorical, as some scholars ...

The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the ...

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ as described in the Bible, in the ...

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday ...

Palestinian security forces deployed around the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, as ...

In the run-up to Christmas, primary schools and Sunday schools often put on Nativity plays This custom, however, is a ...

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

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

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

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