[rightwingintelligentsia]

For the last few years, I've encountered a group of Palestinian Christians from Bethlehem who travel to the U.S. to sell carved wooden and mother of pearl handicrafts (mostly religious items) in the local malls at Christmastime. They tell me it's to help support the Christian community in Bethlehem, who as we can see from the article, are in dire straits.

It would be a terrible thing to see Christians disappear from the town of Christ's birth.

[Biggirl]

Just last weekend, a gentleman from that area did the same thing. After reading the article and listening during Advent of 2005 from his brother, about the situation with the Christians in the city of Jesus's birth getting bad it would not surprise me that in a few years that special community will be history.

[Biggirl]

It was last weekend and in 2005 over at my parish church.