Christians flock to the Church of the Nativity in hopes of finding the Prince of Peace in a walled city scarred by the reminders of war.
Grotto in the Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem. April 2022.• There are painted angels, shepherds and kings above the small altar and a 14-point star on the marble floor below, but there’s no way that sheep, goats or cattle could fit inside the tiny cave that is believed by many Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus.
No, it isn’t the field or the “little town” captured in carols or in global Nativity sets. It is an overcrowded West Bank city in the occupied territories of Palestine, tarnished with trash, behind a concrete wall and checkpoint, and crawling with marketers, selling their Christian angels, olive wood Nativities and crosses.Because, many say, they feel they can find it.
“But there is local lore that says the relatives of Mary and Joseph who owned the inn, or hospitality house, did not approve of this marriage of Joseph to a woman who was already pregnant,” Hansen writes in a recent. “It wasn’t so much there was no room in the inn; it was that there was no room in their hearts for anyone who did not meet their standards of propriety.”
Lots of Palestinians identify with Jesus as a refugee, he says, and reflect on the challenges he and his family “would have faced if they were around today, going from Nazareth to Bethlehem to Gaza and Egypt.” “It is an ungainly thing that still shows how the original arch was closed in with uneven stones and a heavy lintel and posts,” McConkie writes, “to prevent invading horsemen from literally riding into the church to steal the sacramental objects from the sanctuary.”
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