Another Bleak Christmas in Bethlehem as Christian Families Quit West Bank By Mustafa Abu Ganeyeh BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - For a second year running, there is no Christmas cheer in ...

Bethlehem is home to the Church of the Nativity, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus. Christmas, normally the West Bank town's busy tourist season, was quiet and subdued this year. Bethlehem ...

Palestinian security forces deployed around the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, as the faithful prepared for another solemn Christmas. Bethlehem is ...

is only a few miles from his home in Bethlehem. The journey should take 25 minutes by road. But this is the occupied West Bank. Nothing is ever simple here. “We wait for the bus and see if it comes.

Bethlehem, long revered as the birthplace of Jesus, is in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. And as the war between Israel and Hamas continues, Christian leaders in Bethlehem say the city will skip ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — It isn’t subtle. Nor is it intended to be. Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered Palestinian kaffiyeh ...