We live in an open-air prison, faced with numerous hardships, but we prefer to remain in Bethlehem.” A Christian faith that is never flaunted, but rooted in the land where Jesus was born, underlies ...

S. Calumet Road — Bethlehem Lutheran Church will have a special drive-thru collection event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 22 as ...

Bethlehem Mayor Anton Salman and Deputy Mayor Hanna Hanania also discussed the shaky ceasefire, its fragile prospects, and the perilous Hamas tunnels running below—turning homes into war zones with no ...

Gents today wear earrings, bracelets, rings, pins, hairpieces, furs, pretty coats, frilly shirts, silly tees, heels, ...

Tis the season. I go to the storage room and begin to pull boxes out to get things ready for decorating for Christmas. I begin to move furniture around to get things in place. One of the first things ...

Worshippers on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter ... Some suspect that the Gospel writers located Jesus’ Nativity in Bethlehem to tie the Galilean peasant to the Judaean city prophesied ...

To be born and to live as a Christian in the Holy Land is a vocation and a mission, not a curse or a quirk of fate. Being born here means entering the spirituality of discipleship. It is the ...

Pastor and theologian John Piper tackled one of Christianity s enduring debates how Scripture addresses witchcraft and ...

What would you say about the Israelites in Egypt? When God was raining down those plagues on Pharaoh and his people to force ...

As a person who does religion for a living, I am stunned when people think of Trumpism as a religion, or as Christianity itself.

"When over 700,000 Palestinians were forcibly removed from their homes in 1948, it was called the Nakba, the great catastrophe. Trump's plan is Nakba 2.0 and must be resisted." There are, of course, ...

San Rafael, the Spanish version of St. Raphael, is one of the area’s parishes named after the three archangels, which led to ...