Bethlehem plans another somber Christmas under the shadow of …
Dec 23, 2024 · 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 as Bethlehem prepares to mark its second Christmas under the shadow of the war in Gaza, there are almost no tourists, leaving the Nativity Store and ...
Deserted streets and shuttered stores as Israel-Hamas war ... - NBC News
Dec 25, 2023 · BETHLEHEM — The mood was somber, streets were deserted and stores were shuttered on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank city where Christian tradition says Jesus was...
On Christmas Eve, Bethlehem looks like a ghost ... - Associated Press News
Dec 24, 2023 · The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus looks like a ghost town on Christmas Eve, with celebrations in Bethlehem called off due to the Israel-Hamas war.
Bethlehem Plans Another Somber Christmas Under the Shadow …
Dec 23, 2024 · The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual trappings of the city's favorite holiday: no public Christmas tree, no...
Bethlehem gears up for a subdued Christmas amid Israel-Hamas war - AP News
Dec 16, 2023 · BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas, without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger Square, after officials in Jesus’ traditional birthplace decided to forgo celebrations due …
In Bethlehem, it's Christmas in mourning amid the ongoing Gaza war - CBC.ca
Dec 24, 2023 · The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus looks like a ghost town on Christmas Eve, with celebrations in Bethlehem, located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, called off as the war in...
‘God Is Under the Rubble in Gaza’: Bethlehem’s Subdued Christmas
Dec 23, 2023 · Once the patriarch arrives in Bethlehem, he will walk down Star Street, the historical street that goes through the old city to the Church of the Nativity, built on the site where Jesus is ...
Bethlehem marks second subdued Christmas Eve during war in …
Dec 24, 2024 · Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically descends on the West...
Jesus’s birthplace Bethlehem marks Christmas overshadowed by …
Dec 25, 2024 · Christians gathered at the Church of the Nativity in the holy city of Bethlehem on Tuesday to mark a solemn Christmas overshadowed by war, as Pope Francis led mass in the Vatican. In Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, festive decorations were missing for a second consecutive year.
‘If Christ were born today, he would be born under rubble, Israeli ...
Dec 7, 2023 · In Bethlehem, the Lutheran Church decided that its Christmas nativity scene would reflect the reality of children living and being born in Palestine today, placing the symbolic Baby Jesus in a...