Hordes of tourists and pilgrims are a common sight outside Bethlehem’s Church of the ... half-finished shepherds and magi stood watch over deserted workstations. He had already been forced ...

This is the refrain to a Christmas hymn that all ... this good news of great joy to the shepherds, their response is, “Let us go, then, to Bethlehem to see this thing that has taken place ...

Among our stops was the West Bank (Palestinian) city of Bethlehem, today a city of 220,000 ... now known as the Shepherd’s Field, commemorating the shepherds who the New Testament says were ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP ... she drew a curtain to display the dozens of wooden figures — angels, shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny landscape decorated with pebbles, wood and moss.