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

Visual analysis and interviews show how Palestinians have been forced from their homes in the north as the Israeli military ...

Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the occupied West Bank, observed Christmas without its customary ...

Northern Gaza has seenf intense fighting and stringent aid restrictions during Israel's 14-month conflict with Hamas ...

Israeli bombardments and blockades threaten the existence of one of the oldest Christian communities in the world ...

Walaa Jumaa al-Afranji was a well-known calligrapher and handicraft artist who ran her own clothing shop in central Gaza ...

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

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Winter is hitting the Gaza Strip and many of the nearly 2 million Palestinians displaced by ...

The Palestinian city of Bethlehem is preparing for a somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza, with most ...

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 ...

Estimates of Gaza’s Christian population range from roughly 800 to more than 1,000, although hundreds are believed to have left since the war began.

In Virginia, hundreds of sailors and their loved ones got an early Christmas present when the USS Cole docked at its home ...