26 December 2023, The Guardian, by Bethan McKernan: In the days leading up to Christmas, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, said that one particular Bible verse kept running through his mind.
Read MoreIgnorant activists make a profanity of joyous celebration
26 December 2023, The Australian, by Nick Cater: In the conventional nativity scene described in St Luke’s Gospel, the baby Jesus is wrapped in swaddling clothes and lies in a manger. This year, in a photograph prominently displayed in the international woke press, a baby doll has been wrapped in the Palestinian keffiyeh and lies on broken breeze blocks and paving slabs.
Read MoreNo Star in Bethlehem
26 December 2023, Daily Telegraph, by Adella Beaini: Bethlehem has cancelled its annual Christmas celebrations out of respect for the ongoing siege of the Gaza Strip, as the death toll hits a grim milestone.
Read MoreNo Christmas lights or tree in Bethlehem as festivities are cancelled
25 December 2023, The Age: Bethlehem, West Bank: The normally bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus resembled a ghost town on Sunday as Christmas Eve celebrations in Bethlehem were called off due to the Israel-Hamas war.
Read MoreChristmas is cancelled in Bethlehem
23 December 2023, Canberra Times, by Reem Borrows: This year, Christmas is cancelled in Bethlehem. How could Palestinian Christians – the descendants of the first Christians in the world, indigenous inhabitants of the Holy Land – express any form of joy or festivity while enduring a violent campaign to uproot them from their land?
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