BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927.

According to the Christian Christmas story, Jesus was born in a lowly stable in Bethlehem because there was no more room in the local inns. Around 2,000 years later, almost all of Bethlehem's ...

In Victorian days, Rice said, Bethlehem's residents would ''go putzing'' — visiting each other's homes between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day to look at Nativity scenes.

Edward Stourton presents a special Christmas Eve edition of Sunday, featuring live carols from Manchester Chamber Choir. On Christmas Eve in 1223, in cave near the cliffside village of Greccio in ...

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It may not even be spring, but it’s never too early to start planning your holiday trips to the Christmas City.

Hordes of tourists and pilgrims are a common sight outside Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity in the Palestinian West Bank, along with costumed Santas and marching bands. This year, however ...

Every year, when I flip my calendar to December, thoughts of Christmas overwhelm me with anticipation of the joys to come and the great gift of Christ's Nativity. Yet, when I open that same cal ...

To honor the 200th anniversary of Christ Church, Mr. Randall Thompson has created what he calls a Musical Drama of the Nativity, and what should be thought of as a Christmas Pageant. For the seven ...