This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Christmas celebrations return to Bethlehem for the first time in two years, bringing fragile hope to a Palestinian ...

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – Manger Square and the narrow alleyways that surround it filled with the sound of drums and brass as Bethlehem’s scout troupes marched through in their pristine uniforms ...

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 ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — For the past two Christmases, John Juka’s family restaurant looked about the same as any business in Bethlehem: shuttered and eerily empty. But on Saturday evening, it ...