The City where the Prince of Peace, Jesus, was born is now devoid of Christmas Celebrations. The savage Palestinians have desecrated the holiday, not only holy to Christians but true believers worldwide. A crude attempt to honor the terrorist baby killers. Its about time he Western World should open their eyes and see what they are up against.
Jesus was born here. Now they’ve canceled Christmas. Are his followers welcome?
Bethlehem, where Jesus was born, will remove its Christmas displays and cancel celebrations to honor the “martyrs” of Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war continues.
The town best known as the birthplace of Christ can expect a further exodus of Jesus’ followers after canceling Christmas celebrations and removing festive decorations, a former Catholic priest told Fox News.
“You have a town … that is no longer Christian,” theologian Jonathan Morris told Fox News. “Even an essential holiday like Christmas will not be respected.”
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Officials in Bethlehem, the biblical city in the West Bank where Jesus was born, announced Nov. 14 that Christmas decorations wouldn’t be displayed and that holiday celebrations would be canceled to show solidarity with Gaza amid ongoing bloodshed from the Israel-Hamas war. Year-round Christmas decorations would also be removed “in honor of the martyrs and in solidarity with our people in Gaza,” the city council posted on Facebook.
“We’re seeing a political statement overtaking something that we Christians and that the Christians of Bethlehem consider to be so sacred,” Morris said. “When you turn over a Christian holiday — a sacred holiday — to politicians, it’s going to be desecrated, and that’s what we’re seeing in Bethlehem.”
“They are saying ‘anyone who attacks our Palestinian brothers … we are going to protect them, we are going to defend them, and we’re not going to have a celebration here,'” Morris said.
Bethlehem, the West Bank known as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, isn’t celebrating Christmas this year. City officials announced they would remove year-round Christmas decorations installed in prior years and will cancel festive celebrations. (Photo by Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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The former priest said the elimination of holiday decor and celebrations has destroyed tourism, which accounts for 90% of Bethlehem’s revenue, according to The Jerusalem Post.
“That’s how [Christians] made a living,” Morris said. “So, we can be sure that not only has tourism dropped off almost entirely, but there will be a further exodus of Christians from Bethlehem, and that’s tragic.”
A scene of the nativity of Christ with a figure “symbolizing baby Jesus lying in his manger amid rubble” — a reference to destruction in Gaza by Israel — is displayed inside the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. (HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images)