Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources ... s family medical history or help uncover lost ...

Hordes of tourists and pilgrims are a common sight outside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity in the Palestinian West Bank, along with costumed Santas and marching bands. This year, however ...

Professor Helen Bond, a leading expert in Christian history at the ... that the emphasis on Bethlehem as Jesus's birthplace arose from the desire to link him to an ancient Hebrew prophecy.

After recounting a brief history of the Moravian Church ... who narrated the biblical story about the other Bethlehem. “We might wonder why setting up a putz and telling the story of Jesus ...

As other Christians in the region, we may face extinction despite being one of the most ancient communities,” he said. Friar Ibrahim Faltas, vicar of the Custody of the Holy Land, in Bethlehem ...

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

“During the time of Christ’s birth, one of these stationary points occurred when Jupiter was directly overhead in Bethlehem for several nights, aligning with biblical accounts,” said Ki ...

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ as described in the Bible, in the afternoon. The procession consisted of a convoy of vehicles from ...