Thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem’s Manger Square on Christmas Eve as families there and at other sites across the ...

Thousands of people gathered in Bethlehem's Manger Square as Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Christmas Mass and called for a ceasefire in all conflicts this Christmas.

Pope Leo XIV condemned the "senselessness" of war and the "open wounds" it leaves behind, as he delivered his first Christmas ...

COMMENTARY: Christmas is a celebration when the Church seeks to renew in every baptized Catholic the call to go out, to ...

First, Christmas shows what life is about and what life’s goal is. These days are meant to invoke a sense of deep wonder. The ...

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Worshippers and clergy gathered at the entrance of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve ahead of the annual Midnight Mass.

The contextual, bigger story of the nativity and Jesus’ childhood is relevant today, in our times of fracturing and “othering ...

With a ceasefire in place in Gaza, Bethlehem in the West Bank is resuming its festive Christmas celebrations.

The result of their delayed creativity was “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” composed and heard in a Philadelphia church. It was a song that spread across the world, and put the 19th-century church on the ...