Bethelehem

Quiet Bethlehem Christmas means ‘less business, more religion’

Quiet Bethlehem Christmas means ‘less business, more religion’

Deprived of its usual tourist influx by the pandemic, Bethlehem will celebrate a quiet Christmas this year that is less about commerce and more about religion, says its parish priest. In a normal year hundreds of thousands of visitors flood the Palestinian city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, located less than 10 kilometres (six miles) […]