As Christmas returns to the city where it began, Bethlehem moves to reconstruct its tourism industry. The annual Christmas tree lighting took place this weekend in Bethlehem. Thousands of people came ...

At the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV presided over his first Midnight Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. In his homily, he marveled at the ...

A tiny wooden relic that some Christians believe to be part of Jesus’ manger arrived Saturday in its permanent home in the biblical city of Bethlehem 1,400 years after it was sent to Rome as a gift to ...

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 the site where Christians ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - A tiny wooden relic that some Christians believe to be part of Jesus' manger arrived Saturday in its permanent home in the biblical city of Bethlehem 1,400 years after it ...

The Palestine News Network (PNN) has an open wave covering the marking of Christmas Eve in Bethlehem’s Manger Square, where thousands of locals and internationals are gathered. Today’s events will ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — A 10-meter-high (32-feet-high) Christmas tree has been lit in Manger Square. The ceremony began the Christmas season in Jesus’ traditional birthplace. About 500 visitors counted ...