Bethlehem Lutheran Church will have a special drive-thru collection event from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 22 as part of its shoe drive. The shoe drive combines international impact with local outreach to ...

By Pastor Rod Anderson The 12 days of Christmas have run their glorious course and we are looking Epiphany squarely in the face on Jan. 6, and then for a whole season of worship weeks. On the ...

Paradoxically, the post-ceasefire period in Gaza has been even more difficult to endure for our columnist Marie-Armelle ...

About 2,300 people across the Lehigh Valley will receive life-changing relief for their medical debts thanks to an act of faith by several congregations. An estimated $3.2 million in debt owed by ...

“If you walk toward the front, you’ll go uphill,” said congregant Ken Grieshaber, a member of the venerable Bethlehem church’s governing board who carries the title senior warden and joked ...

David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...

The list of people with Lehigh Valley ties who died in 2024 include World War II fighters; entertainers like the Amazing Kreskin, Gene Belletiere and Bill Mutimer; journalists, politicians and ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP ... Security forces arranged barriers near the Church of the Nativity, built atop the spot where Jesus is believed to have been born. The cancellation of Christmas ...

A worshipper walks through the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, on Christmas Eve, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024.

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 ...