Unlike many other Christian families in the Bethlehem area, none of the Hosh siblings have moved abroad.

For decades, the people of Bethlehem have watched tour buses drive up to the Church of the Nativity, disgorge their passengers for a few hours at the traditional birthplace of Jesus, and then return to Israel.

Graffiti was scrawled in Hebrew on a wall and a car was burned in the Palestinian town of Taybeh

The Trump administration has reversed a 40-year U.S. policy critical of Israeli settlements on the West Bank, writes Drew Christiansen, S.J., raising the obstacles to Palestinians ever achieving a homeland.

"The Holy See reiterates its position of a two-state solution for two peoples as the only way to reach a complete solution to this age-old conflict."

Some Filipino healthcare workers and their children who are living in Israel face deportation.