{"id":70090,"date":"2025-12-25T03:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/70090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T03:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T03:31:15","slug":"christmas-returns-to-bethlehem-amid-fragile-gaza-truce-dw-12-24-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/70090\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas returns to Bethlehem amid fragile Gaza truce \u2013 DW \u2013 12\/24\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two years of war and devastation, <a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/christmas\/t-38855651\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christmas<\/a> returns to Bethlehem, the city revered as Jesus&#8217;s\u00a0birthplace.<\/p>\n<p>A giant tree now stands in Manger Square, where locals and tourists gather in celebration. For a city that\u00a0relies on tourism, the holiday marks a fragile hope for recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Amid ongoing\u00a0tensions, residents and church leaders call for peace and light after years of darkness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two years of war and devastation, Christmas returns to Bethlehem, the city revered as Jesus&#8217;s\u00a0birthplace. A giant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-70090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}