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 ...

Christians in the Holy Land are praying for peace this Christmas after another difficult year marked by conflict and ...

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

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

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.

Christmas is a bleak event in Bethlehem in 2024 -- there is no traditional Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church ...

Palestinian scouts stage a silent march in the street near the Church of the Nativity as Christians prepared to mark its ...

Tourism accounts for an estimated 70% of Bethlehem’s income — almost all from the Christmas season. Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land ...

Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the roughly 14 million people spread across the Holy Land.

It's another Christmas in Bethlehem with the war still raging in Gaza. Palestinians in the city believed to be the birthplace of Jesus are hurting after more than a year of war.