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Bethlehem Dispatch: A muted Christmas ‘bereft its usual festive splendour’
December 27, 2023
Bethlehem’s main square is bereft its usual festive splendour and twinkling red, green and white lights. Usually bustling this time of year with thousands of global visitors and with Christians visiting from across the Holy Land—including Gaza—the square is now desolate.  There are no tourists or pilgrims. The abrupt halting of access for Christians from
Star with royal beauty bright
January 07, 2023
Before the 16th century, Christians generally assumed that the Star of Bethlehem must have been some kind of astrological miracle. For instance, the Church Father St John Chrysostom believed that the Star of Bethlehem literally came down from heaven and stood over the manger where Jesus lay.
On the First Day of Christmas: Bethlehem Bells
December 25, 2022
May Baldwin reports from the Holy Land on the the powerful and enchanting Christmas processions in Bethlehem
Diary: the Knights Hospitaller, the Holy Land, and the miracle of birth
November 29, 2022
Mgr John Armitage reflects on healing grace, the miracle of life, and joy in this season full of superficiality and blessing
Tough going at Christmas for the ‘Little Town of Bethlehem’
December 21, 2020
Covid-19 restrictions are keeping pilgrims and holidaymakers away from the Holy Land. Business is "at a standstill" said relief agency Christian Aid in a December 21 press release.
How Bethlehem’s Christian mayor is restoring the city
January 08, 2018
From unemployment to decaying buildings, the city of Christ’s birth is in need of regeneration. Enter a new Christian mayor – and Banksy
Do not ‘clericalise’ lay people, Pope urges Church
April 28, 2017
During a meeting with members of Catholic Action yesterday the Pope said there was a temptation to impose vocations on lay people
Region in Russia stops abortions on Feast of the Holy Innocents
January 13, 2017
Russian Orthodox diocese declared January 11 a 'day of silence without abortions'
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