In-depth: Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, marked a sombre Christmas for the second year running as Israel's brutal war ...

Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day. Gone was the ...

Pope Francis called for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address on Wednesday, appealing for peace in ...

Bethlehem, the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ, marked a subdued Christmas, overshadowed by the ongoing conflict in ...

Christians gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark a solemn Christmas ...

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

It's another Christmas in Bethlehem with the war still raging in Gaza. Palestinians in the city believed to be the birthplace of Jesus are hurting after more than a year of war.

Bethlehem is hardly calm and bright this holiday. Neither is the rest of the region that three world religions consider ...

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

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ...

The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the West Bank during Christmas week were nowhere to be found.

The war, the violence in the occupied West Bank it has spurred and the lack of festivities has deeply hurt Bethlehem's ...