‘If Christ were born today, he would be born under rubble, Israeli bombing’

All the Palestinian churches have cancelled Christmas festivities this year, and one church in Bethlehem shares its pain through iconography.

By Munjed Jadou

Published On 7 Dec 20237 Dec 2023

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – The churches of Palestine have announced the cancellation of all festive Christmas celebrations in an expression of unity with Gaza and rejection of the ongoing aggression against Palestinians, limiting them to masses and prayers.

In Bethlehem, the Lutheran Church decided that its Christmas nativity scene would reflect the reality of children living and being born in Palestine today, placing the symbolic Baby Jesus in a manger of rubble and destruction.

Link to full article:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/7/if-christ-were-born-today-he-would-be-born-under-rubble-israeli-bombing

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  1. Soline Humbert says:

    Christ IS being born, and dies, under rubble today: “What you do to the least of my brothers and sisters, you do to me”.
    War is always a terrible scourge and a tragic failure, but what is now happening in Gaza is truly a massacre of the innocents with one child killed every 10 minutes and many more wounded and maimed. It has been described as a “graveyard for children”.

    Early this week I got my 5 year-old grandson to set up the family crib. A crib which somehow survived, with my maternal family, a World War II invasion, occupation and refugee dislocation. As I look upon it I think of all those who continue to suffer and die, or are displaced, in wars in Israel and Palestine, Ukraine, Sudan and other places of violent conflict, and my heart breaks and longs for peace for our world. How slow we are to learn the ways of peace and non- violence…
    Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons and daughters of God.
    https://sojo.net/magazine/january-2024/violent-retribution-wont-heal-israelpalestine

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