The Milk Grotto has long been a favored pilgrimage site for women and families seeking the blessing of a child or facing challenges with pregnancy and nursing.

Bethlehem artist Lina Sleibi, together with London musicians, have released a Christmas 2024 song of hope from the town where Jesus was born over two thousand years ago. Similar to last year, no ...

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, Nativity scenes are displayed in churches, homes, and town squares all over the world.

The keffiyeh was visible during the presentation of the Bethlehem Nativity to Pope Francis in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on ...

Bethlehem’s Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity is largely deserted and souvenir shops are shuttered. Once ...

One of the Vatican’s Nativity scenes raised eyebrows when it was unveiled because it featured a keffiyeh, the Palestinian ...

To criticize the Vatican’s nativity with a now-removed Jesus in a keffiyeh would be to dismiss the artistic history of crèches centering marginalized people.

In the wake of global controversy over a Nativity scene displayed at the Vatican showing the infant Jesus resting upon a ...

The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem said he is counting on a rapid normalization of pilgrimage tourism following the ceasefire ...

Dozens of Nativity scenes were on display during the Festival of Nativities held Dec. 6 at Trinity Lutheran Church in ...

After the display raised a few eyebrows, the Vatican appears to have removed a Nativity scene that showed baby Jesus lying on ...

Pope Francis officially unveils the annual Nativity scene in the Vatican with baby Jesus wrapped in a Palestinian keffiyeh.