The street’s name also piqued my interest. Sometime later I located the street just off Nativity Square, the hub of Bethlehem ...

No presents on Christmas day? Drinking hot corn? Why is Mexican Christmas different and what goes on in December and January?

Later during the Christmas season, you might want to watch the 1949 film Come to the Stable that tells the story of Regina ...

St. Francis was inspired, it is believed, by his pilgrimage to the Holy Land to depict the scene of Christ’s birth in a literal way. As his first biographer, Brother Thomas of Celano, explains it, St.

The names of the main figures in the nativity scene are displayed on wooden posts in the design nativity scene on the pier in ...

This Christmas, while massive crowds of pilgrims will flock to Rome for the opening of the Jubilee year, I'll be spending the ...

Faith leaders and residents in Bethlehem are grappling with how to mark the festive holiday while fellow Palestinians ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity scene in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. It depicted Jesus' birth ...

During the Christmas season when I was a boy, my mother used to take my brothers and sisters and me down to one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco — to visit some animals that were ...

The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank on Christmas were nowhere ...

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