The devastation has loomed over the celebrations for the tiny Christian community in Gaza, with much of the population living ...

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon, in an unusually direct appeal during a solemn, ...

Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal ...

On Christmas day, Pope Leo XIV issued an appeal on behalf of refugees and the displaced, including in Gaza, saying the peace ...

During his first Christmas Day homily, Pope Leo XIV remembered the people of Gaza “exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold.” ...

On Christmas Eve, thousands of people flocked to Bethlehem's Manger Square and other Holy Land sites, after two years of ...

A new billboard declaring, "Jesus is Palestinian. Merry Christmas," is lighting up New York City's Times Square.

The 2023 and 2024 celebrations were canceled with a "broken heart and a broken soul," Bethlehem's mayor told NBC News, but ...

People flocked to Bethlehem on Dec 24 to celebrate Christmas after two years of the Gaza war as a precarious ceasefire in ...

"Jesus took upon himself our fragility, identifying with each one of us: with those who have nothing left," the pontiff said.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated the first Christmas since his election by denouncing the suffering of people of Gaza – taking shelter in tents from the “rain, wind and cold” – and by calling for the guns to ...