Palestine, Bethlehem, The neo-Gothic style Church of Saint Catherine is adjacent to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and is administrated by the Roman Catholic Church. It is built over the grot...

Palestine, Bethlehem, The Chapel of the Shepard's Field in Bethlehem in the Occupied Palestinian Territories of the West Bank. It is built near a series of caves in the hills where shepards watched th...

Palestine, Bethlehem, An altar in one of the caves near the Chapel of the Shepard's Field traditionally purported to have been used by the shepards when the angels announced the birth of the baby Jesu...

Israel, Church of the Beatitudes, Church of the Beatitudes is a Roman Catholic church built in 1938 in neo-Byzantine style on the site of an earlier Byzantine church marking the traditional site of th...

Israel, Church of the Beatitudes, Church of the Beatitudes is a Roman Catholic church built in 1938 in neo-Byzantine style on the site of an earlier Byzantine church marking the traditional site of th...

Palestine, Bethlehem, Corinthian columns in the nave of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank. The original basilica was built in 339 A.D. over the Nativity Grotto which is...

Palestine, Bethlehem, Pilgrims in the nave of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank. The original basilica was built in 339 A.D. over the Nativity Grotto which is the tradi...

Palestine, Bethlehem, Icons, sanctuary lamps and the main iconostasis in the apse of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank. The original basilica was built in 339 A.D. over...

Palestine, Bethlehem, Furnishings in the transept of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank. The original basilica was built in 339 A.D. over the Nativity Grotto which is th...

Palestine, Bethlehem, Furnishings in the transept of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank. The original basilica was built in 339 A.D. over the Nativity Grotto which is th...

Palestine, Bethlehem, The doorway of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank. The original basilica was built in 339 A.D. over the Nativity Grotto which is the traditional bi...

Palestine, Bethlehem, Priests in the Grotto of the Nativity in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the Occupied West Bank. The original basilica was built in 339 A.D. over the Nativity Grotto w...