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 ...

Christmas festivities in Jerusalem's Old City Christian quarter drew large crowds who came to enjoy the festive atmosphere. People walked under rows of twinkling lights, and decorated cafes were ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town Sunday after Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war.

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

Christians in Israel and Palestine are celebrating Christmas for the first time in two years now that Israel and Hamas have entered a cease-fire.

JERUSALEM — In December 2023, the Advent season in Fassuta, a Melkite Christian village about nine miles from the Lebanese border, was solemn and fraught with danger. While the war raged between ...

A man dressed as Santa Claus walks through a street adorned with Christmas decorations in Jerusalem on Dec. 18, 2025. The Christmas celebrations came amid a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wished Christians worldwide a merry Christmas and thanked the Christian community for its support amid the Jewish state's ...

Speaking just hours after his wartime Christmas visit to Gaza City Holy Family Parish, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, delivered a poignant Christmas message during a ...