We all know the stories that led up to the birth of Jesus Christ, but we pay little attention to what happened “the day after ...

Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day. Gone was the ...

No presents on Christmas day? Drinking hot corn? Why is Mexican Christmas different and what goes on in December and January?

A church whose congregation has roots in the 19th century is closing and donating hundreds of thousands of dollars from the sale of its building to charity in a Pennsylvania city named for the ...

Bethlehem is marking another somber Christmas Eve under the shadow of war in Gaza. Manger Square lacked its usual festive ...

Our commitment this Christmas is to rebuild our trust and renew our hope for life here in Bethlehem and throughout Palestine, ...

Pro-Israeli campaigners have targeted celebrity adventurer Bear Grylls after he called the Virgin Mary a 'Palestinian refugee ...

Georgia's little town of Bethlehem has drawn hundreds of people every year with its special postmark for their Christmas ...

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 ble ...

Hope is a powerful but tenuous state, and the holidays can elicit strong, often competing feelings. Some find joy and promise ...

Christmas marks the birth of Jesus of Nazareth over 2,000 years ago in Bethlehem, Palestine, in what is now the Israeli Occupied West Bank. The occasion is both solemn and ...

Ah, Doctor Who. Where time and space bend, warp, and twist in ways that make your head spin faster than a Dalek on roller skates. "Joy to the World" is no exception.