{"id":492193,"date":"2025-11-23T08:24:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/belen-prepares-the-christmas-celebrations-after-two-years-of-paralysis-due-to-the-war-in-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:24:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T12:24:25","slug":"belen-prepares-the-christmas-celebrations-after-two-years-of-paralysis-due-to-the-war-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/belen-prepares-the-christmas-celebrations-after-two-years-of-paralysis-due-to-the-war-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Bel\u00e9n prepares the Christmas celebrations after two years of paralysis due to the war in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"The Palestinian city of Bethlehem, in the south of the West Bank<\/a>, is preparing for the first time in two years the Christmas celebrations it used to hold before Israel launched its devastating offensive in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, including the lighting of a Christmas tree next to the Church of the Nativity.\n\nSince the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, and the retaliatory Israeli offensive against Gaza, which has claimed the lives of nearly 70,000 Palestinians, Bethlehem is not placing the traditional Christmas tree next to the basilica built over the cave in which, according to tradition, Jesus of Nazareth was born.\n\nThe program for this city begins on November 29th, with the arrival of the Custodian of the Holy Land (the Franciscan fraternity that cares for the holy places in the Holy Land), Francesco Ielpo. On December 3rd, he will give a press conference on the eve of Christmas and, on December 6th, the lighting of the city’s Christmas tree and lights will take place.\n\n\n

You can also read<\/strong>: Cuba warns of a possible US aggression to “violently overthrow” Maduro<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nThroughout December, Bethlehem will host a Christmas market, and its City Council is considering the possibility of holding a concert on Christmas Eve (December 24) upon the arrival of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The Latin Patriarchate is the highest Catholic authority in the area.\n\nOn January 6th, the Orthodox patriarchs will come to the city, and on the 18th, the Armenian Patriarch will arrive.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Palestinian city of Bethlehem, in the south of the West Bank, is preparing for the first time in two years the Christmas celebrations it used to hold before Israel launched its devastating offensive in the Gaza Strip in October 2023, including the lighting of a Christmas tree next to the Church of the Nativity. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-242B","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}