Sitting in his wheelchair, Pope Francis was led to the nativity scene where he prayed in silence, before making an impassioned speech for peace in the Middle East. “With tears in our eyes ...

invented the new take on the nativity scene last Christmas season. “This is what Christmas looks like in Palestine,” Munther Isaac told Middle East Eye last December. “If Jesus were to be ...

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