EDITORIAL: For the Prince of Peace, no human turmoil can ever be too great to transcend. Priests pray at the Grotto, under the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of ...

Christmas this season in the Holy Land will be celebratory, despite ongoing bloodshed and war, the patriarchs of the Holy Land said, as Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa encouraged pilgrims to come ...

JERUSALEM — Advent has crept in quietly this year in the Holy Land. It has been stripped away from the usual trappings of Christmas, which normally are impossible to resist either here in Jerusalem or ...

Due to COVID-19 and decreased tourism, the solemnity will be subdued this year in Jesus’ birthplace. Few people walk around after the lighting of the Christmas tree in Bethlehem in the occupied West ...

As we prepared to enter the novena before Christmas, we received the horrific news of the attack on the Holy Family parish in Gaza. At midday on December 16, an Israeli sniper murdered Naheda and ...

Nativity scenes are a staple of the Christmas holiday season depicting the birth of Jesus. You have probably seen many of them over the years, but you’ve likely never seen one like the Christmas Holy ...

Speaking just hours after his wartime Christmas visit to Gaza City Holy Family Parish, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, delivered a poignant Christmas message during a ...

For the second straight year, Christmas looks to be quiet in Bethlehem, if not peaceful. Reuters reports that Manger Square in front of the Church of the Nativity is deserted, its souvenir shops ...

A Christian businessman from Bethlehem who runs a store that sells hand-carved olive wood Nativity scenes said on a visit to Birmingham this week that tourism in the birthplace of Jesus has dried up, ...

An art installation in front of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem depicts the baby Jesus in an incubator — HAZEM BADER Sadness over the war in Gaza subdued the holiday cheer in Bethlehem on ...

The chapel beside the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington glows with Christmas decorations in this 2015 file photo. (Credit: CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn.) Listen WASHINGTON, D.C. — With a ...