“My son asked me why there’s no Christmas tree this year, I don’t know how to explain it,” Ali Thabet tells CNN. He and his family live in Al Shawawra, a Palestinian village near Bethlehem ...

For Palestinians, Christmas in Bethlehem represents a window to the world. It has long been synonymous with joy and hope, and an occasion to commemorate the place of birth of the Christmas story ...

Banksy wants people celebrating Christmas to consider what’s happening in present-day Bethlehem. The elusive street artist’s latest work features a “modified nativity” scene: Joseph and ...