On Bethlehem’s Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West...

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...

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

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

Christianity was widespread in late-Middle Ages Europe, and Christmas celebrations every December were the norm in cities and villages. For...

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...

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

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

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

'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....