As a Palestinian resident of the West Bank, Tony is not permitted to make the procession between the two holy sites. "It ...

Bethlehem is hardly calm and bright this holiday. Neither is the rest of the region that three world religions consider ...

Hundreds gathered at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank as the leader of the Catholic Church in the Holy ...

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

Patriarch Pizzaballa delivered a heartfelt message during the Mass: "Everyone speaks of the Holy Land as a place of war, ...

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ as described in the Bible, in the ...

Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in ...

The Christmas spirit in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ, was festive yet overshadowed on Christmas Eve by the grim realities of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Pa ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa spoke with reporters hours after his wartime visit to Gaza, where he witnessed scenes of ...

HANNA HANANIA: And always, we are asking the international community to bring back this message to Bethlehem and to the Holy Land because we need to live in peace and dignity in our land.

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday ...

The war, the violence in the occupied West Bank it has spurred and the lack of festivities has deeply hurt Bethlehem’s ...