The tune for this popular Christmas song comes from the 18th-century French carol “Les Anges dans nos Campagnes.” In English this carol is usually known as “Angels We Have Heard on High ...

On Bethlehem's Manger Square, Christmas decorations and pilgrims are notably absent for a second wartime festive season in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city. The Church of the Nativity that ...

This week, three bright planets are making that case to be this year's “Star of Bethlehem” or “Christmas Star,” with Jupiter, Mars and Venus all shining brightly. The legend of a bright ...

So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the ...

BETHLEHEM — On Christmas Eve in 1741 ... she drew a curtain to display the dozens of wooden figures — angels, shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny landscape decorated with pebbles ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - A festive retail destination – filled with hand-crafted nutcrackers, Christmas tree ornaments, retired reindeer bells and other yuletide cheer – is coming soon to the ...

More than 20 years ago, a group of volunteers in the Valley began to organize Bethlehem Village, a live nativity scene performed in Afton. Volunteers from several churches and the surrounding ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — On Christmas Eve in 1741 ... she drew a curtain to display the dozens of wooden figures — angels, shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny landscape decorated ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this ... she drew a curtain to display the dozens of wooden figures — angels, shepherds, kings carrying gifts — in a tiny ...