This tradition commemorates the Star of Bethlehem, which according to the New Testament ... According to an old Polish legend, animals are granted the gift of speech on Christmas Eve as a reward for ...

On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this ... Moravians continue celebrating their Christmas season traditions in Bethlehem.

Edward Stourton presents a special Christmas Eve edition of Sunday ... There will be no Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem this year. Shaimaa Khalil reports from the birthplace of Jesus.

2023 | 11:13 PM Gaza's deadliest ever war cast a pall of gloom over Bethlehem on Christmas Eve Sunday, as the death toll spiralled and Israel shifted its strikes to the besieged territory's south.

Hordes of tourists and pilgrims are a common sight outside Bethlehem’s Church of the ... to deliver his traditional midnight mass on Christmas Eve, but with pilgrims staying away and access ...

Jesus was visited by three wise men from the East who had followed a star to Bethlehem ... Christmas, special carol services are held as well as candlelit services and midnight masses on Christmas ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Nearly 300 years later, Moravians continue celebrating ...