Hundreds pack Bethlehem church for Christmas Mass

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Christian faithful, defying lashing rains and wind, celebrated Christmas Mass at Jesus’ traditional birthplace on Sunday, spirits high despite the gloomy weather.
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Worshippers dressed in their holiday best rushed under cover of umbrellas into St. Catherine’s Church on Manger Square, leaving the plaza, with its 50-foot-tall (15-meter-tall) Christmas tree, deserted. The church was packed, and the overflow crowd waited eagerly in an arched corridor for a chance to enter.
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news.yahoo.com/hundreds-pack-bethlehem-church-christmas-mass-075218465.html

It is so nice that Mass can be celebrated in Bethlehem to this very day. That said, I wonder how many people at the Mass were visiting from the United States and from other nations? I hope that the Holy Mass was a very nice one for them.
 
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