A cleric leading Friday prayers in Iran’s capital demanded the death penalty for protesters detained in a nationwide ...

Israeli authorities have ordered the demolition of a football field in a crowded refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, eliminating one of the few ​spaces where Palestinian children are able to run ...

Christmas celebrations returned this year to both Bethlehem and Nazareth, but the season is unfolding very differently in the two cities that sit at the heart of Christianity — Bethlehem, the ...

Imtiaz Tyab is a CBS News senior foreign correspondent based in London and reports for all platforms, including the "CBS Evening News," "CBS Mornings," "CBS Sunday Morning" and CBS News 24/7. He has ...

Christmas started in Bethlehem more than 2,000 years ago, and now the celebration is bringing some much-needed holiday cheer right where it was born. After years in which the horrors of the war in ...

Thousands flocked to Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas for the first time since the implementation of the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas peace deal. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who has served as the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families heralded a much-needed boost of holiday spirit. The giant Christmas tree that was ...

For the first time in two years, Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank is hosting a large public Christmas celebration. The festivities have either been pared down or canceled since the Israel-Hamas war ...

Palestinian Christians are reviving their seasonal public celebrations, hoping to bring light and holiday spirit at the end of a gloomy year in the West Bank. By Fatima AbdulKarim Reporting from ...

Edward Lear, “Bethlehem” (1861). Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Public domain. “O Little Town of Bethlehem” has shaped how millions of English speakers imagine the Palestinian town where Jesus was ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — At midnight on Christmas Eve, the words of the traditional hymn “The Night of Christmas” will ring out in the tiny grotto in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built on ...