The cancellation of Christmas festivities was a severe blow to the town’s economy ... Manger Square near the Church of Nativity on December 24, 2023 in Bethlehem, West Bank.

He gazed at a nativity scene in Manger ... festivities was a severe blow to the town’s economy. Tourism accounts for an estimated 70% of Bethlehem’s income — almost all of that during ...

People wait outside Cathedral Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Thursday, March 20, 2025, to enter a People’s Town Hall hosted by state and Lehigh County Democrats. The event was part of ...

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 ...

The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town Sunday ... comes to Bethlehem to mark Christmas, but this year was especially sobering, as he gazed at a Nativity scene ...

He gazed at a nativity scene in Manger ... festivities was a severe blow to the town's economy. Tourism accounts for an estimated 70% of Bethlehem's income — almost all of that during the ...

near the Nativity Church, which is traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Sunday. AP-Yonhap ...

The cancellation of Christmas festivities was a severe blow to the town's economy. Tourism accounts for an estimated 70 per cent of ... to the Church of the Nativity, told the sparse crowd that ...

Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene ... the Palestinian pastor of a landmark Lutheran church in Bethlehem, the West Bank town revered by Christians as Jesus’ birthplace.

It is the site now of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. The new mural draws a comparison with the journey of Christ and his family, when they had to flee Bethlehem under an oppressive ruler ...

With approximately 3,400 residents, modest in size like its ancient namesake once was, the rural town of Bethlehem has two places that connect beautifully to that miraculous event of the Nativity.