“O Little Town of Bethlehem” was written in 1867 by Phillips Brooks, an Episcopal pastor from Philadelphia. He had been in Israel two years earlier and had celebrated Christmas in Bethlehe ...

“O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie,” begins a beloved Christmas carol sung since 1868, paying homage to Jesus’ birthplace. But have you heard of Bethlehem, Connecticu ...

but one of the first and perhaps the most famous is Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a town of 75,000 in the eastern state’s Lehigh Valley, a short drive from Allentown. Bethlehem was founded in 1741 ...

Carols play over PA systems, singing out Christmas traditions: Joy and comfort to you, O Little Town of Bethlehem; all is calm, O Holy Night. Where exactly is Bethlehem? The Holy Land? Bethlehem ...

The Christmas carol "O Little Town of Bethlehem" was written in 1868 by Phillips Brooks. Brooks was the second rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square. "He was in Bethlehem ...

The little town of Bethlehem is jammed with a big-city problem. Traffic snarls streets everywhere, including around the church marking the spot where Jesus was born. And now, with Christmas upon ...

Palestinian Christians celebrated Christmas Day mostly alone in Bethlehem on Wednesday, as two years of violence kept foreign pilgrims away. Few pilgrims means little ... in the town where ...

Christians throughout the world will think of Bethlehem this season whenever we sing the familiar carol “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” But this year, none of us should sing the following words ...

But Mr Blair, who is trying to promote tourism in Bethlehem as one of his four "Quick Impact Projects" to create some jobs, went a little further. He added that "it would be a great place if the ...