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

At Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, residents and businesses are facing the effects of the Israel-Hamas war during the holiday season. The city, usually filled with ...

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday cheer was absent in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem on ...

Hundreds gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank as the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy Land marked the second Christmas Midnight Mass under the shadow of the war in ...

It is already the second Christmas in Bethlehem to be marked by Israel's war in Gaza. Tourists and pilgrims have stopped coming to the city almost altogether, and the economic situation seems even ...

The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual trappings of the city's favorite holiday: no public Christmas tree, no raucous ...

Post reporter Caitlin Doornbos hoped to take a break from the war to share the stories of Christians making their pilgrimages to the Holy Land.

Christmas celebrations are canceled in the West Bank and the city of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ’s birthplace, for the second ...

Palestinian priests share messages of hope and resistance as they celebrate a scaled-down Christmas in Jesus' birthplace ...

In a Christmas sermon, Palestinian Rev. Munther Isaac called out Western churches’ complicity in Israel’s assault.

The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem’s visit to Gaza came as Pope Francis again criticised Israel ... war. Christmas time is usually one of high tourism for the historical city of Bethlehem.

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