Dispatchers will alert trained volunteers to respond to reports of ICE activity in order to gather information, document ...

"Bethlehem's Christian population has been ethnically cleansed," the video proclaims over footage of Muslims praying in Nativity Square. "Right across the square from the Church of the Nativity is ...

In A.D. 614, the Persians, who razed many other churches during wars with Byzantium, spared the Church of the Nativity, supposedly out of respect for a mosaic of the Magi shown wearing Persian attire.

The Church of the Nativity in biblical Bethlehem has been closed over coronavirus fears, the Palestinian tourism ministry announced Thursday. The move comes after the first cases of the virus were ...

Christmas celebrated in Bethlehem 26 photos. ROME - The Italian firm restoring one of Christianity’s holiest sites - the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem - says it’s more than halfway ...

Bethlehem lies 10 kilometres south of the city of Jerusalem, in the fertile limestone hill country of the Holy Land. Since at least the 2nd century AD people have believed that the place where the ...

Father Issa Thaljieh, a 40-year-old Greek Orthodox parish priest at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, kneels at the spot where tradition says Jesus was born.

US President Joe Biden arrives for a visit at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, at the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Friday, July 15, 2022.

The World Heritage Site Church of the Nativity is located in Bethlehem, which is in the Israeli-controlled West Bank. Palestinians consider the area to be illegally occupied land.

“Last year, I left the Nativity church at 3 a.m. after multiple Masses,” says Kevin Vollrath, manager of Middle East partnerships at Churches for Middle East Peace, who lives near Bethlehem ...

A view of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church's Nativity scene in Bethlehem. This year, it portrays a baby Christ born under rubble and wrapped up in a Palestinian keffiyeh .