Usually crowds pack into Manger Square for celebrations but this year the mood is subdued. Middle East. Christmas in Bethlehem is somber due to the Israel-Hamas war. December 25, 2023 7:14 AM ET.

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. But ...

ASMA KHALID, HOST: Christmas morning in Bethlehem is somber, not the usual joyful town with parades and bands in Manger Square. Church leaders canceled celebrations there because of the Israel ...

The Nativity Store in Manger Square in Bethlehem has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to pilgrims visiting the Church of the Nativity, where Christianity holds Jesus was born ...

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. But ...

Bethlehem is preparing for another somber Christmas under the shadow of war in Gaza. Manger Square lacked its usual festive lights and crowds of tourists.

news World. Bethlehem marks a second subdued Christmas during the war in Gaza Manger Square lacked its usual festive lights and crowds of tourists on Tuesday.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- 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. But as ...

In Manger Square before the Mass, Christine El Khoury, a Palestinian Christian citizen of Israel, said she traveled to Bethlehem "to get the Pope’s blessing." ...

A wooden structure that Christians believe was part of the manger where Jesus was born was sent by St. Sophronius, the patriarch of Jerusalem, to Pope Theodore I in the 640s.