Palestine News & Information Agency (WAFA)
January 6, 2012 Friday
Orthodox Christians Celebrate Christmas
BETHLEHEM, January 6, 2012 (WAFA) – Orthodox Christians celebrate
Friday Christmas Eve with the annual procession for the Greek Orthodox
Patriarch from Jerusalem to Bethlehem’s Church of Nativity. The
Patriarch, Theophilos III, will lead the procession from the Greek
Orthodox Patriarchate in the Old City of Jerusalem at noon to
Bethlehem, where he will be received upon arrival at Manger Square by
Palestinian officials as well as by boy and girl scouts and marching
bands and hundreds of people. Theophilos III will later lead the
Midnight Mass at the Church of Nativity, which will be attended by
President Mahmoud Abbas and other Palestinian and international
officials. The Greek Orthodox community in Jerusalem will celebrate
Christmas day on Saturday and the New Year on January 13. Other
communities, most notably the Armenians, will celebrate Christmas on
January 17. M.S.
From: A. Papazian
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