Some of the items offered in Fadi Kattan's new cookbook Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food Ashley Lima/Hardie Grant hide caption
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Pope Francis presides over Christmas eve Mass, at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, on Sunday. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption
A view of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church's Nativity scene in Bethlehem. This year, it portrays a baby Christ born under rubble and wrapped up in a Palestinian keffiyeh. Ayman Oghanna for NPR hide caption
There's no Christmas in Bethlehem this year. With war in Gaza, festivities are off
A handful of visitors tour the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed to be the birthplace of Christ, in the biblical West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Dec. 15. Abbas Momani/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
For a second Christmas, the Holy Land is closed to pilgrims because of COVID
Clergymen carry a wooden relic believed to be from Jesus' manger outside the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on Saturday. Majdi Mohammed/AP hide caption
During the restoration work, this mosaic angel was discovered hidden under a layer of plaster. Daniel Estrin/NPR hide caption
Armenian and Greek Orthodox clergymen scuffled inside Bethlehem's Church of Nativity today. Bernat Armangue/AP hide caption