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State of Palestine: Bethlehem celebrates midnight mass as Xmas festivities resume amid COVID restrix02:37
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Bethlehem's traditional midnight mass took place at the Church of the Nativity - which houses the grotto where Jesus was born - on Friday, as Christmas celebrations resumed in the biblical town after being cancelled last year due to a COVID-19 lockdown.

Only a small group of people were allowed to attend by invitation only amid the spread of the Omicron variant and a surge in COVID cases.

The mass was celebrated by Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Catholic Church's Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

State of Palestine: Bethlehem celebrates midnight mass as Xmas festivities resume amid COVID restrix

Palestinian Territory, Occupied, Bethlehem
December 24, 2021 at 23:03 GMT +00:00 · Published

Bethlehem's traditional midnight mass took place at the Church of the Nativity - which houses the grotto where Jesus was born - on Friday, as Christmas celebrations resumed in the biblical town after being cancelled last year due to a COVID-19 lockdown.

Only a small group of people were allowed to attend by invitation only amid the spread of the Omicron variant and a surge in COVID cases.

The mass was celebrated by Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Catholic Church's Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

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Bethlehem's traditional midnight mass took place at the Church of the Nativity - which houses the grotto where Jesus was born - on Friday, as Christmas celebrations resumed in the biblical town after being cancelled last year due to a COVID-19 lockdown.

Only a small group of people were allowed to attend by invitation only amid the spread of the Omicron variant and a surge in COVID cases.

The mass was celebrated by Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Catholic Church's Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.

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