Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...

The video is from late October 2022, not December 2024, and was recorded outside of a church in Beit Sahour, a small town near Bethlehem.

It was approximately a 90-mile trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem. In those days, people would travel about 20 miles a day. They didn’t travel a flat, paved road, but rugged terrain that would go ...

This, however, is where things start to fall apart for the Bethlehem narrative. Professor Bond says: 'Luke suggests it [the census] is over the whole Roman world and that people had to go back to ...

The star is mentioned twice, and the text implies the first sighting was at the time of Jesus's birth.

“At the end, people are running away, they go abroad, and unfortunately among them there are many Christians.” Milk Grotto Street in Bethlehem, the artisans' street, in December 2024. This ...

(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 will construct a trail link between the Bethlehem Greenway and the Saucon Rail Trail after purchasing land from ...

“Like all Moravian traditions, the importance of it is that it brings people together,” said the Rev. Janel Rice, senior pastor of Central Moravian Church — Bethlehem’s first ...

"Always the message of Bethlehem is a message of peace and hope," said Mayor Anton Salman. “And these days, we are also ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically ...