Christmas marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Palestine, in what is now the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The occasion is both solemn and ...

Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day. Gone was the ...

Our commitment this Christmas is to rebuild our trust and renew our hope for life here in Bethlehem and throughout Palestine, ...

It is already the second Christmas in Bethlehem to be marked by Israel's war in Gaza. Tourists and pilgrims have stopped coming to the city almost altogether, and the economic situation seems even ble ...

Christians, like other people in the Strip, are also deprived of access to humanitarian aid and basic materials in light of a ...

Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, the Prince of Peace, is only 35 miles from the Gaza Strip, where in the past 14 months ...

Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged "all people of all nations" to find courage during this ...

The Christian population in areas governed by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas has plummeted drastically by up to 90 in ...

Children marching in the cortege held up signs reading, “We want life, not death,” and “Stop the Gaza genocide now!” This is the second subsequent year that the Bethlehem municipality has elected to ...

At the start of the 2025 Holy Year celebration he dedicated to hope, Francis called for broad reconciliation “even (with) our ...

An elderly married Palestinian Christian couple displaced by war in the Gaza Strip missed the chance to mark Christmas in ...

Pope Francis prayed that the Jubilee Year may become “a season of hope” and reconciliation in a world at war and suffering ...