图一(罗马大公教会驻圣地最高级别的宗教领袖Michel Sabbah宗主教来到基督降生教堂
,伯利恒)
A Christian pilgrim, right, bows in respect to Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah,
the Roman Catholic Church's highest official in the Holy Land, center, in th
e Church of St. Catherine at the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believ
ed by many to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the biblical West Bank to
wn of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2007. Hundreds of Christian pilgrims celeb
rated Jesus' birth on Tuesday in the West Bank town where he was born, in an
atmosphere made markedly cheerier by the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace
talks after years of bloody conflict. By midday, the ancient Church of the N
ativity was packed with tourists waiting in line to see the grotto that marks
the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner) |