Orthodox Christians have gathered in Bethlehem this week, the city recognised as the birthplace of Jesus, to mark Christmas.

On Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city. The Church of the Nativity that ...

(BETHLEHEM, West Bank) — 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.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP ... The festive lights and giant tree that normally decorate Manger Square were missing, and as were ...

Bethlehem Plans Another Somber Christmas Under the Shadow of War in Gaza BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items ...

BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories - On Bethlehem’s Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city.

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.

“Always the message of Bethlehem is a message of peace and hope ... that is so sad,” he told hundreds of people gathered in Manger Square, where normally tens of thousands would congregate.

A priest walks in the virtually empty Church of the Nativity in the biblical city of Bethlehem -- thousands would normally visit the church ahead of Christmas — AHMAD GHARABLI On Bethlehem's Manger ...