Xmas at floor zero: Bethlehem prays for peace (Video clip)
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At minimum fifty,000 Palestinian and global Christians gathered in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ, to pray for peace in the Holy Land and the total Center East. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Fouad Twal, entered the holy metropolis in a colourful procession, accompanied by Palestinian Scouts actively playing bagpipes and a male dressed as Saint Nicholas. Before, in a pre-Xmas handle in Jerusalem, Twal – who is the Holy Land's top rated Roman Catholic clergyman – expressed worry about the destiny of Christians soon after the upheavals sweeping the Center East. “May the Lord bless you, bless us, and give us a new calendar year entire of blessing, entire of peace… the following in the Center East," he explained. He is to lead a midnight Xmas mass in Bethlehem’s Church of Nativity. Bethlehem is found just a number of miles from Jerusalem inside of the West Lender, a element of the Palestinian Territories underneath a a long time-prolonged Israeli navy profession. The feast was guarded by equally regional Palestinian police and Israeli troops at the border.