This was our day in Bethlehem. We began with a visit to Herod’s palace at the mountain-top Herodion, with its tremendous vistas of the Judean hill-country.We explored its ruins and descended its ancient watercourse. We then traveled to Bethlehem. We toured the Church of the Nativity, which marks the cave in which Jesus was born, and visited with Rev. Mitri Raheb, a Palestinian minister of the Lutheran Church. Much like our conversations with Rev. Mark Brown the previous afternoon in Jerusalem, Bethlehem was a sobering reminder of the plight of our brothers and sisters in Palestinian territories.
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