Experience Slow Tourism in Bethlehem, Palestine.
Bethlehem is a small city located some 10 km south of the Old City of Jerusalem within the West Bank, in an Area A zone administered by the Palestinian Authority. The Church of the Nativity, one of the oldest churches in the world, is the focus of Christian veneration within the city. The Bethlehem agglomeration also includes the small towns of Beit Jala and Beit Sahour, the latter also having biblical significance.
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Reconectar en Palestina, Reconnect in Palestine
Para todos aquellos habitantes de Latinoamérica con origen en la Palestina histórica, Tareek Tours pretende ser un puente entre sus tierras de acogida y su lugar de procedencia, para poder brindarles la oportunidad de conocer sus raíces, su historia y su presente.
Mediante una inmersión en la cultura árabe-cristiana, visitando las localidades de Belén, Beit Sahour y Beit Jala, los viajeros tendrán la elección de explorar sus orígenes, conocer la vida de sus antepasados y reencontrarse con ellos mismos
For those living in the Americas with origins in historic Palestine, Tareek Tours will act as your bridge between your host land and your place of origin in order to provide the opportunity to odiscover your roots, , your history and your present context..
Through immersion in the Arab-Christian culture, visiting the towns of Bethlehem, Beit Sahour and Beit Jala, travelers will have the opportunity to explore its origins, learn about the lives of their ancestors and rediscover themselves.
مشاهد من الثلوج في بيت لحم وبيت جالا والمخرور والدوحة والخضر وبرك سليمان - الجزء الخامس - برك سليمان
Date of video : 27 January 2022
مشاهد من الثلوج في بيت لحم وبيت جالا والدوحة والخضر وبرك سليمان صباح يوم الخميس الموافق 27 كانون الثاني يناير 2022 .
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شاهد جمال الثلج في منطقة برك سليمان بقرية ارطاس ببيت لحم بفلسطين
Snow scenes in Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Doha, Al Khader and Suleiman Pools on Thursday morning, January 27, 2022.
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The Shepherd's Field - Visit www.obethlehem.com to order DVD
East of Bethlehem lies the village of Beit Sahour, where one of the most sacred places to Christians; the Shepherds' Field; is found, identified as the scene where the Angel of the Lord visited the shepherds and informed them of Jesus' birth (pbuh); And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And the Angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people (Luke 2:8-10). To order the whole DVD and in different languages, please visit
Shepherds’ Field in Bethlehem The story of the Shepherds' Field near Bethlehem. Tour Guide - Samir
Shepherds’ Field in Bethlehem The story of the Shepherds' Field near Bethlehem. Tour Guide - Samir
The Shepherds' Field Chapel is a Roman Catholic religious building. in the area of Beit Sahur, southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank in Palestine. The chapel marks the place where, according to Catholic tradition, angels first announced the birth of Christ.
Visit Palestine this October with Saleem & Kristel
In this episode you can hear all about the Visit Palestine October program that Saleem and myself are organizing! This 10-days program includes a full day of olive picking and two nights with local families in the village of Abud.
We will visit many of the people and places that you have heard about in the last two years of podcast episodes!
We will start the program on Monday 3 October with an introduction to get all participants on the same page when it comes to history and terminology that we will need to understand throughout the visit.
The first nights we will stay in Beit Sahour in a family hotel and we will discover Bethlehem area, Battir and Jerusalem. Then we will go towards Jericho and on our way we will visit several of the desert monasteries and of course Hisham's palace! Of course we won't miss out on the experience of floating in the Dead Sea, the lowest point on earth.
The next two days we will be in Abud, a small village north west of Ramallah. The people of Abud will welcome us in their homes and we will get a chance to connect with the local families. On Sunday there is a full day of olive picking including a nice brunch on the field.
In Taybeh we have the opportunity to visit the famous Taybeh beer brewery as well as a local distillery.
In Nablus there is so much to explore, the Turkish bath, the olive soap factory, the spices shop, the Ottoman clock tower, the Green Mosque and of course we will eat Knefeh Nabulsiya.
On our way back to Bethlehem we pass by Mount Gerizim and we will visit the Samaritan community and learn more about their relation to the land and their claim that the true Temple was not in Jerusalem but on Mount Gerizim.
There is a free day in Bethlehem that you can use to rest and relax, to go shopping, to discover more in Bethlehem or in Jerusalem and we can strongly advice to take the Sacred Cuisine food tour in the old city of Jerusalem.
The last day we head to the West towards the Mediterranean Sea and we will visit the city of Jaffa.
For more information about this program visit the website and request the PDF file
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If you enjoy listening to Stories from Palestine then you should also check out the podcast Jerusalem Unplugged. You can find it on most podcast players and on social media.
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The Shepherds Field, Bethlehem - The story of the church
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera.
+972 54 6905522 zahigo25@walla.com
צחי שקד, מורה דרך ומדריך תיירים. מצלם אותם בכל הזדמנות 0546905522
Approximately 2 km to the east of Bethlehem lies the village of Beit Sahour, where one of the most sacred places to Christians; the Shepherds' Field; is found, identified as the scene where the Angel of the Lord visited the shepherds and informed them of Jesus' birth (pbuh); And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And the Angel said to them, Fear not, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people (Luke 2:8-10).
The Roman Catholics and the Greek Orthodox each have their own Shepherds' Field. The Roman Catholic site features a Franciscan Chapel designed to resemble the shepherds' tent while the Greek Orthodox site features a 5th century church built over a cave.
In the Orthodox Shepherd's Field, a site in a small valley with olive trees some of them dating back 2000 years, an underground Church is dedicated to Synaxis of the Mother of God (celebrated December 26th). On the night of Christ's Nativity, this underground church was the cave of the shepherds, who heard the angelic proclamation Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth and good will to men (Luke 2-14). This cave was one of the many churches built by Saint Helena in the year 325 AD. The cave functioned first as a shelter, then as a tomb of the shepherds, and has been treated as such by Christians since the 4th century.
On the basis of archaeological evidence, it has been proved that the church dated to early Byzantine period, and that it is the earliest Christian structure build on this site.
Up to 1972, only the underground church was visible and in regular use, but almost none of the mosaics were visible. In that year the spiritual father of the Monastery of Saint Savva, Archimadrite Seraphim, had taken control of this holy shrine, in order to build a new full-size church above the basement church. Excavating the foundations for the new church, there were remains of three different churches of the 5th, 6th and 7th centuries found respectively.
Now the holy site consists of five churches:
The Natural Cave Church which dates to the 2nd half of the 4th century
The Cave Church, dating to the 5th century
The Roof Chapel, which also dated to the 5th century
The Basilica, which dates to the 6th century
The Monastery Church, which dates to the 7th century
The nearby field of Ruth is traditionally associated with the events of the Old Testament (recounted in the Book of Ruth 1:16).
The Shepherds Cave- Bethlehem
West Bank,- Bethlehem.
Caves where shepherds “kept watch over their flock” still abound in the area east of Bethlehem. Here, the Gospel of Luke tells us, an angel announced the birth of Jesus.
The angel’s good news was not given to the noble or pious, but to workers with a low reputation. Jewish literature ranked “shepherd” as among the most despised occupations of the time — but Jesus was to identify himself with this occupation when he called himself “the Good Shepherd” (John 10:11).The traditional place of the angel’s visit is the town of Beit Sahur. Originally known as the Village of the Shepherds, it is now an eastern suburb of Bethlehem
The Shepherds' Field Greek Orthodox church near Bethlehem, tour guide: Zahi Shaked
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera.
+972 54 6905522 zahigo25@walla.com
צחי שקד, מורה דרך ומדריך תיירים. מצלם אותם בכל הזדמנות 0546905522
• In the eastern part of Beit Sahur is a red-domed Greek Orthodox church at a site known as Kaniset el-Ruat (Church of the Shepherds). This site is identified with the biblical Tower of Edar (Tower of the Flock) where Jacob settled after his wife Rachel died. Eusebius (AD 265-340) says the tower, 1000 paces from Bethlehem, marked the place where the shepherds received the angel's message.
Excavations here have uncovered a series of remains dating back to a mosaic-floored 4th-century subterranean church, said to have been built by St Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine.
The Greek Orthodox site of the Shepherds' Fields is at Kanisat al-Ruwat in the middle of fields 2 km southeast of Bethlehem. The ruins at al-Ruwat include a cave used as a church from the 4th century, of which the barrel-vaulted roof (5th century) still survives. It is approached by a flight of 21 steps and has three apses with traces of mosaic and old frescoes. The mosaic floor includes crosses, and therefore must predate 427, when this was forbidden as impious.
The church at al-Ruwat served the Orthodox community from the 5th century to 1955. It is the only 5th-century church outside Jerusalem to survive intact. Above it a Byzantine chapel was built, and was in turn replaced by a larger church, which was then destroyed in 614. It and a monastery were rebuilt in the 7th century and survived until the 10th century. Today, a new large church has been built, the 4th-century lower church has been restored, and the remains of the upper church and monastery have been preserved.
The Greek-Orthodox Shepherds' Fields
This site is located in a small valley with olive trees, some dating back 2000 years. There is the subterranean church dedicated to the Mother of God. This site is revered as the spot where an angel surrounded by a supernatural light, appeared to the bewildered shepherds. On the night of Christ´s Nativity, this undergroud church was the cave of the shepherds, who heard the angelic proclamation „Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth and good will to men (Lk 2-14)
The angel said to the shepherds:
„Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people .
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
„And suddently there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying: ´Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men´.
And it came to pass, as the angel were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherd said on to another: „Let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord made known to us. (Luke 2:8-15)
This cave was one of many churches built by Saint Helena. The cave functioned first as a shelter, then as a tomb of the shepherds, and has been treated as such by Christians since the 4th centrury.
Therefore, directly connected with Jesus, it has been venerated as a holy place from the earliest Christian times.
Beside this church St. Helena built also a convent for nuns, called the Convent of the Gloria in Excelsis, today only the crypt of the church remains. It is a dark, subterranean chapel which contains an altar at the east with a number of paintings and a small apse behind it. The roof is a cut stone vault of the usual Roman or Byzantine type. Some fragments of a mosaic pavement can be seen on the floor and faint traces of painting on the walls
Old paintings in the underground crypt
In 1972 the new church was erected near the traditional site of the underground Church of the Shepherds. It was decided to build the new church adjacent to rather than immediately above the cave
The new church has three holy altars which dedicated as follows: the main altar to the Mother of God, the altar on the right to the great martyr and healer -- Saint Panteleimon, and the altar on the left side to the archangels Michael and Gabriel and all the heavely hosts.
כנסיית שדה הרועים - הכנסייה היוונית-אורתודוקסית בבית סאחור, ליד בית לחם
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera.
+972 54 6905522 zahigo25@walla.com
צחי שקד, מורה דרך ומדריך תיירים. מצלם אותם בכל הזדמנות 0546905522
• In the eastern part of Beit Sahur is a red-domed Greek Orthodox church at a site known as Kaniset el-Ruat (Church of the Shepherds). This site is identified with the biblical Tower of Edar (Tower of the Flock) where Jacob settled after his wife Rachel died. Eusebius (AD 265-340) says the tower, 1000 paces from Bethlehem, marked the place where the shepherds received the angel's message.
Excavations here have uncovered a series of remains dating back to a mosaic-floored 4th-century subterranean church, said to have been built by St Helena, the mother of the emperor Constantine.
The Greek Orthodox site of the Shepherds' Fields is at Kanisat al-Ruwat in the middle of fields 2 km southeast of Bethlehem. The ruins at al-Ruwat include a cave used as a church from the 4th century, of which the barrel-vaulted roof (5th century) still survives. It is approached by a flight of 21 steps and has three apses with traces of mosaic and old frescoes. The mosaic floor includes crosses, and therefore must predate 427, when this was forbidden as impious.
The church at al-Ruwat served the Orthodox community from the 5th century to 1955. It is the only 5th-century church outside Jerusalem to survive intact. Above it a Byzantine chapel was built, and was in turn replaced by a larger church, which was then destroyed in 614. It and a monastery were rebuilt in the 7th century and survived until the 10th century. Today, a new large church has been built, the 4th-century lower church has been restored, and the remains of the upper church and monastery have been preserved.
The Greek-Orthodox Shepherds' Fields
This site is located in a small valley with olive trees, some dating back 2000 years. There is the subterranean church dedicated to the Mother of God. This site is revered as the spot where an angel surrounded by a supernatural light, appeared to the bewildered shepherds. On the night of Christ´s Nativity, this undergroud church was the cave of the shepherds, who heard the angelic proclamation „Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth and good will to men (Lk 2-14)
The angel said to the shepherds:
„Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people .
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: You shall find baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
„And suddently there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying: ´Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men´.
And it came to pass, as the angel were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherd said on to another: „Let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord made known to us. (Luke 2:8-15)
This cave was one of many churches built by Saint Helena. The cave functioned first as a shelter, then as a tomb of the shepherds, and has been treated as such by Christians since the 4th centrury.
Therefore, directly connected with Jesus, it has been venerated as a holy place from the earliest Christian times.
Beside this church St. Helena built also a convent for nuns, called the Convent of the Gloria in Excelsis, today only the crypt of the church remains. It is a dark, subterranean chapel which contains an altar at the east with a number of paintings and a small apse behind it. The roof is a cut stone vault of the usual Roman or Byzantine type. Some fragments of a mosaic pavement can be seen on the floor and faint traces of painting on the walls
Old paintings in the underground crypt
In 1972 the new church was erected near the traditional site of the underground Church of the Shepherds. It was decided to build the new church adjacent to rather than immediately above the cave
The new church has three holy altars which dedicated as follows: the main altar to the Mother of God, the altar on the right to the great martyr and healer -- Saint Panteleimon, and the altar on the left side to the archangels Michael and Gabriel and all the heavely hosts.
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The Shepherds' Field Chapel or the Sanctuary of the Gloria in excelsis Deo, dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima and St. Theresa of Lisieux, is a Roman Catholic religious building in the area of Beit Sahour, southeast of Bethlehem in the West Bank in Palestine. The chapel marks the place where, according to Catholic tradition, angels first announced the birth of Christ.
According to ancient tradition, the shepherds received the first tidings of the Nativity in a broad valley in Beit Sahour where they were keeping watch over their flock by night. An angel said unto them, “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
Caves where shepherds “kept watch over their flock” still abound in the area east of Bethlehem. Here, the Gospel of Luke tells us, an angel announced the birth of Jesus.The angel’s good news was not given to the noble or pious, but to workers with a low reputation. Jewish literature ranked “shepherd” as among the most despised occupations of the time — but Jesus was to identify himself with this occupation when he called himself “the Good Shepherd” (John 10:11).
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Dear Christians, come visit with me in the Shepherds' Field. Guide: Kamil Manne. Merry Christmas
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The Arab village of Beit-Sahur, which sits in the middle of the Booz fields mentioned in the book of Ruth (Ruth 3:5), has been identified by tradition as the Shepherds’ Field, that is, the place where the announcement of Jesus’ birth to the shepherds by the angels took place.
Limestone caves which were used as dwellings during the Roman-Herodian time, were found in the area.
It was probably a small farming village since remains of ancient mills and other traces of life from the same period were also found.
The Franciscans have cleaned up and turned the caves into very characteristic small chapels.
You, who are the light of the people and the master of holiness,
light up our steps with the light of Your word
In 1953 the Franciscans, under the guidance of architect Antonio Barluzzi and with the contributions of Canadian benefactors, had the Sanctorum Angelorum ad Pastores chapel built (dedicated to the announcement of the holy angels to the shepherds) outside the village. It is in the shape of a nomadic shepherds’ tent and is surmounted by a small starry dome. Frescoes that reproduce the Gospel story of Luke decorate the three chapels inside.
The grotto that rises up behind the small church can still be used for the liturgy. In the natural cavity, no signs of ancient devotion have been found, but this place has such a special place in the hearts of visitors that other grottos have been used for this purpose. And it is still beyond a doubt that in ancient times these grottos were really used by shepherds.
The large archaeological area can be visited. In various places, altars and spaces for mass have been prepared, so that, especially on Christmas Eve, various groups have the opportunity to celebrate the Eucharist at the same time in suitable settings.
The parish church of the Latins (designed by Barluzzi in 1950) is dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima.
Zahi Shaked A tour guide in Israel and his camera zahigo25@walla.com +972-54-6905522 tel סיור עם מורה הדרך ומדריך הטיולים צחי שקד 0546905522
My name is Zahi Shaked
In 2000 I became a registered licensed tourist guide.
My dedication in life is to pass on the ancient history of the Holy Land.
Following upon many years of travel around the world, which was highlighted by a very exciting emotional and soul-searching meeting with the Dalai Lama, I realized that I had a mission. To pass on the the history of the Holy Land, its religions, and in particular, the birth and development of Christianity.
In order to fulfill this calling in the best way possible, I studied in depth, visited, and personally experienced each and every important site of the ancient Christians. I studied for and received my first bachelors degree in the ancient history of the Holy Land, and am presently completing my studies for my second degree.(Masters)
Parralel to my studies, and in order to earn a living, I was employed for many years in advertising. What I learned there was how to attract the publics attention, generate and, increase interest, and assimilate information. All this I use as tools to describe, explain and deepen the interest in the sites that we visit. From my experience, I have learned that in this way, the Holy Land becomes more than just history, and that the large stones that we see scattered about in dissaray, join together one by one until they become - a Byzantine Church. This also happens when I lead a group of Pilgrims in the Steps of Jesus. We climb to the peak of Mount Precipice, glide over the land to the Sea of Galilee, land on the water and see the miracle which enfolds before us. This is a many faceted experience. Not only history which you will remember and cherish, but an experience which I hope will be inplanted in your hearts and minds, and will accompany you all the days of your life.