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

On Christmas Eve in 1741 ... Beloved tradition retells the story of the birth of Jesus Bethlehem's first settlers brought with them hand-carved figures to retell the story of Christ's birth.

In an advertisement for New Testament retelling “the Greatest Story Ever Told,” survivalist Bear Grylls called Mary a ...

A Palestinian police woman stands guard as Greek Orthodox clergy gather in the Church of the Nativity, where Christians ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...

(AP) — On Christmas Eve in 1741 ... A beloved tradition retells the story of the birth of Jesus Bethlehem’s first settlers brought with them hand-carved figures to retell the story of ...

Thus inspired, Zinzendorf named the settlement Bethlehem. Bethlehem’s first settlers ... to the infant Jesus. In Victorian days, Rice said, Bethlehem’s residents would “go putzing” — visiting each ...

On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace of Jesus ... Central Moravian Church — Bethlehem’s first congregation and the oldest ...