Bethlehem
Emigration and Islamism are the main concerns of a population in demographic decline.
P.A. Tourism Ministry: The events hall where the symbols were seen has been closed to the public.
City residents are frustrated by what they say is the municipality’s lack of action regarding repeated instances of gunfire in and from the nearby Palestinian town.
The U.S. president visited the city’s Church of the Nativity, following a stop earlier in the day to the Augusta Victoria Hospital on the Mount of Olives in eastern Jerusalem.
Locals appear to be more concerned with the financial distress that COVID has caused to a city whose main industry is tourism than with the U.S. president, who they say is coming “for the Israelis, not for us.”
The $200 clue in the category “Where’s That Church?” was “Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity.”
In the 24 years since Israel handed over control of the town to the Palestinian Authority, Bethlehem’s Christian population has dwindled by some 80 percent—and it shows.
Hundreds protest in PA following ‘honor killing’ of young Bethlehem woman
Palestinian women take to the streets to demand justice for Israa Ghrayeb, 21, who was allegedly murdered by her family, and to demand a reform of P.A. law to afford women greater protection.
The Palestinian Authority and Israeli Muslim figures often voice support for Christians and seek to utilize them in the struggle against Israel, but it is the Jewish state that stands out as a defender of Middle East Christians.
