For the second year in a row, official Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem are canceled. Palestinians in the city deemed the birthplace of Jesus say they cannot rejoice while the war rages on in Gaza.

Christmas is the high point of the year in Bethlehem, which, like the rest of the West Bank, is struggling to recover from the economic hard times that followed the violent Palestinian uprising ...

Holiday cheer was but a ghost of Christmas past in Bethlehem, where only a handful of pilgrims braved weeks of warfare in the Holy Land to visit the biblical birthplace of Jesus yesterday. "There is ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Christians from the world over packed Manger Square in Bethlehem on Monday to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient town where he was born. For their Palestinian hosts, ...

"I watch Christmas in Bethlehem each year on TV, but to be here in person is different. To be in the spot where our savior was born is amazing." After nightfall, a packed Manger Square, along with a ...