Christmas celebrations are canceled in the West Bank and the city of Bethlehem, Jesus Christ’s birthplace, for the second ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan In one of only a handful of times in the last century, Christmas this year coincides with the ...

Amid the horror of watching genocide unfold day after day, the words of a Palestinian pastor gave me a reason to hope.

“If Jesus were to be born today, he would be born under the rubble in Gaza … To us, this is a message that Jesus identifies with our suffering.” Isaac is the author of a forthcoming bo ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...

another church assembled a Christ in the Rubble crèche last week. The nativity scene outside St. Mark’s Episcopal Church features a Black baby Jesus swaddled in a keffiyeh lying in a bed of ...

Can you help Pearls and Irritations? Pearls & Irritations appears to be one of the few media with an independent voice left ...

The Greek word “skandalon” suggests a stumbling block, but also “a trap or snare laid for an enemy.” But there is no trap for ...

The Church of the Nativity now stands on the site considered to be Jesus’ birthplace, in an animal stable, where the newborn ...