Christmas in Bethlehem: True peace requires rights, not concessionsThe Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa led midnight Mass in the place where Jesus was born. “What is needed are not concessions,” he says, “but rights, and an end to years of occupation and violence, [. From Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, Archbishop Pizzaballa talks about what he heard this year in the countries that fall within the jurisdiction of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. For the patriarch, heard right here “what the word ‘resilience’ concretely consists of. For we are witnesses that when Jesus is at the center of our lives, the earth receives Peace” in Bethlehem and in every corner of the world.--Asia News

Source: The Herald December 27, 2021 11:45 UTC