People attend a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the New Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City, on December 14, 2025. (photo credit: JAMAL AWAD/FLASH90) The poll reflects the wider cultural presence of ...

Thirteen pediatric and young heart patients from Zambia are spending Christmas in Israel after receiving free cardiac surgery as part of the Save a Child's Heart program in Holon. As Christians around ...

Bethlehem, where Christians believe Jesus was born, had canceled Christmas celebrations during the war. But on Wednesday, the ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, poses for the photos with Palestinian parishioners after leading a mass ahead of Christmas celebrations at the Holy Family Catholic ...

As the celebration of Christ's birth draws near, the traditional Christmas tree lighting in various places, including Bethlehem and the Vatican, is meant as a sign of joyful expectation for the coming ...

Christmas celebrations returned this year to Bethlehem’s historic Manger Square after a two-year absence, the Anadolu news ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — At midnight on Christmas Eve, the words of the traditional hymn “The Night of Christmas” will ring out in the tiny grotto in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, built on the ...

Gaza’s tiny Palestinian Christian community is trying to capture some of the Christmas spirit under a fragile ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war Attallah Tarazi recently received Christmas presents ...