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Bethlehem is home to Bethlehem University, a Catholic Christian co-educational institution of higher learning founded in 1973 in the Lasallian tradition, open to students of all faiths. Bethlehem University is the first university established in the West Bank, and can trace its roots to 1893 when the De La Salle Christian Brothers opened ...
Bethlehem Steel (1857–2003), founded and based in Bethlehem, was once the second-largest steel producer in the United States, after Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel. The company was a powerhouse in the mid-twentieth century, with over 30,000 employees at its peak. [ 25 ]
The club was founded and formerly based in Bethlehem, where it was known as Bethlehem Steel FC in honor of the original club. In February 2013, the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer unveiled a third uniform that honors and harks back to the original Bethlehem Steel F.C. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] [ 42 ] The kit is primarily black with white trim and ...
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Bethlehem was founded in 1741 on Christmas Eve and nicknamed "Christmas City, USA" in 1937, the same year the town erected its first Christmas star atop nearby South Mountain.
The house was originally built by the Moravian settlers who founded Bethlehem as a home for its entire community (numbering 80 individuals) and later for the married clergy and officers. It served as the location within which they conducted their education, medicine, worship, and home mission work, and served in this role for many years.
The Bohemian Brethren's Church was founded in Kunvald, Bohemia, in 1457. ... a select several of the Moravian settlers moved from Georgia to Bethlehem, ...
Bethlehem, where once-majority Christians now make up fewer than one-fifth of the town's population of some 30,000, is a microcosm of the West Bank’s woes. Checkpoints hem it in, and the stony ...
Bethlehem's main city square, Manger Square, is an extension of the large paved courtyard in front of the Church of the Nativity and St Catherine's. Here crowds gather on Christmas Eve to sing Christmas carols in anticipation of the midnight services.