A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

The Middle East. The West Bank. Bethlehem. The place where Jesus was born. The place where the angels sang, “Peace on earth, good will to men.” But the Middle East is not a place of peace. However, ...

Some atheists have stated that Christmas was simply copied from Grecco-Roman pagan holidays like Saturnalia, but that is ...

The city, where Jesus Christ was born, is decking the halls again — decorating the city with traditional lights and a massive ...

With Christmas just around the corner, carol concerts and nativity plays will be reminding Christians everywhere about the story of Jesus' birth. However, whether you're singing 'O Little Town of ...

Christmas celebrations are returning to Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank after two years of war in the Gaza Strip.

For the past two years all public Christmas celebrations have been cancelled in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born, and when Christians started ...

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