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 ...

There will be no Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem this year. Shaimaa Khalil reports from the birthplace of Jesus. Rev Dr Munther Isaac, Dean of Bethlehem Bible College, has created a nativity ...

In Bethlehem, a church was decorated with ... "We wanted to tell churches worldwide: 'Unfortunately, Christmas in Palestine is like this.' Whether Christian or Muslim, this is the situation ...

Traditionally, a grand Christmas ... we limited our joy," Bethlehem mayor Anton Salman told AFP. "We want to focus on the Palestinian reality and show the world that Palestine is still suffering ...

Image: Bethlehem's Christian community struggles to celebrate amid ongoing war in Palestine There is no ... country is shrinking' "Normally we spend Christmas in Bethlehem and Jerusalem but ...

Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Palestine, during a time of colonisation ... Yesterday in Colombo, there was a Christmas eve vigil and a march with the theme that there can be no real Christmas ...