Journey through the heart of Bethlehem, where ancient history meets modern-day resilience. This documentary takes you to the ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

News; World; Christmas procession arrives at Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem Dec. 24, 2024 Updated Tue., Dec. 24, 2024 at 12:23 p.m. Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads ...

“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 .