The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born ...

Do you think the animals at the manger provided comfort to the Christ child and His parents, as our pets give to us?

For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to war in Gaza.

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, have been canceled again this year due to war in Gaza.

As the service concludes, those gathered reflect on the beauty and mystical nature of Christ’s birth. They hold candles and ...

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

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

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another somber Christmas in the traditional birthplace of ...

For the second year in a row, official Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem are ... Bells ring out onto Manger Square as a girl scout troop sings solemnly. The sparse crowd of spectators watch ...