In the end, most Christian leaders and Biblical scholars seem to agree that Jesus Christ was probably born in Bethlehem. And given the location of the Church of the Nativity, it’s likely that he ...

The tourists buy our nativity sets. Right now I am working on a grotto ... I tell my son, Mahmoud, to be careful where he takes the sheep. Bethlehem is the capital of the Christian world where our ...

On Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city. The Church of the Nativity that ...

Shaimaa Khalil reports from the birthplace of Jesus. Rev Dr Munther Isaac, Dean of Bethlehem Bible College, has created a nativity scene in his church directly inspired by the suffering endured as ...

Hordes of tourists and pilgrims are a common sight outside Bethlehem’s Church of the ... the birth of Jesus Christ. As the war between Israel and Hamas rages around 100km (60 miles) away in ...

Granted, stories of Christ’s miraculous deeds—healing ... Some suspect that the Gospel writers located Jesus’ Nativity in Bethlehem to tie the Galilean peasant to the Judaean city prophesied ...

Tis the season. I go to the storage room and begin to pull boxes out to get things ready for decorating for Christmas. I begin to move furniture around to get things in place. One of the first things ...