For a second straight year, the war raging in Gaza has kept pilgrims and tourists away from Bethlehem in the occupied West ...

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

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

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 ...

Protests erupted in Christian neighborhoods of the Syrian capital Damascus after a Christmas tree was set on fire in another ...

Bethlehem is an important center in the history of Christianity, but Christians make up only a small percentage of the ...

The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual ...

For the second consecutive year, the city of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank is commemorating Christmas this year without ...

It's another Christmas in Bethlehem with the war still raging in Gaza. Palestinians in the city believed to be the birthplace of Jesus are hurting after more than a year of war.

Faith leaders and residents in Bethlehem are grappling with how to mark the festive holiday while fellow Palestinians ...

Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in ...