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Bethlehem Transforms as Peace Favors Christmas Era
In Bethlehem, olive groves and hills of Judea greet Christmas with a calmer, cleaner town. The Church of the Nativity has shed its old divisions and walls, allowing renewed worship by Latins Greeks Armenians and Copts. Police guard the celebrations, sect rivalries fade, and age old feuds yield to peaceful ceremony.
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