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Tourists lift Bethlehem’s spirits

12/21/2022 by Hawaii Catholic Herald

By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service BETHLEHEM, West Bank — On the third Sunday of Advent the pews of St. Catherine Church were overflowing, with families and young children, teens and older parishioners attending Mass in anticipation of Christmas. Pilgrim groups waited outside in the courtyard and, in the Church of Nativity, adjacent to the […]

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