On Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city. The Church of the Nativity that ...

Christmas festivities in Bethlehem are overshadowed by the war. A large Christmas tree usually stands in Manger Square, opposite the Church of the Nativity which is built atop a cave where ...

For the second straight year, Bethlehem’s Christmas celebrations will be somber and muted, in deference to ongoing war in Gaza. There will be no giant Christmas tree in Manger Square ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, Bethlehem’s usually vibrant ... For more stories from The Media Line go to themedialine.org In Manger Square, a scaled-down holiday parade drew fewer spectators than ...

Nearly 300 years later, Moravians continue celebrating their Christmas season traditions in Bethlehem. They include the “putz,” a Nativity scene that tells the story of Christ’s birth with ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in ... lights and giant tree that normally decorate Manger Square were missing, and as were the throngs ...

On Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city. The Church of the Nativity that ...

Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another somber Christmas in the traditional birthplace ... The festive lights and giant tree that normally decorate Manger Square were missing.