Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another somber Christmas in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war...

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

It is already the second Christmas in Bethlehem to be marked by Israel's war in Gaza. Tourists and pilgrims have stopped coming to the city almost...

'It is impossible to celebrate while there is still blood being spilled in the Gaza Strip and dozens of people are killed every day,' the mayor says....

As Christmas arrives, the small Christian community in the Gaza Strip is again facing a season mired in war.

There are no Christmas decorations or lit trees for Palestinian Christians in the city of Bethlehem.

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, have been canceled again this year due to war in Gaza, and the thousands of...

Pope Francis called for the sound of arms "to be silenced in war-torn Ukraine," and for a Gaza ceasefire. The grand Christmas tree in the biblical...

Five years ago, my wife and I joined a religious pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and we did celebrate Christmas right there in the Church of the...