Israel Lifts Travel Restrictions to Holy Sites for Christmas

Filed under: News — rlrr @ December 24, 2004 - 12:04 pm

(www.politinfo.com)

A Palestinian drum and bugle corps heralded the traditional entry into Bethlehem of the Latin Patriarch from Jerusalem. At midnight, a festive mass is to be held in the Church of the Nativity. Interim Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas is expected to attend the midnight mass - something Israel had not allowed Yasser Arafat to do in the past several years.


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