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Nazareth, The Home Town Of Jesus, Has Cancelled Christmas Because Of Trump by Ghidihawn: 6:14pm On Dec 15, 2017
​The Israeli Arab city said it had cancelled Christmas celebrations in protest at the US President’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Mr Trump announced the move last week, reversing decades of US policy and recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, jeopardising Middle East peace efforts and upsetting the Arab world and Western allies alike.
Nazareth, the largest Arab town in Israel with a Muslim and Christian population of 76,000, is one of the Holy Land’s focal points of Christmas festivities.


City spokesman Salem Sharara said: “We have decided to cancel the traditional Christmas singing and dancing because we are in a time of dispute, because of what Trump has said about Jerusalem.”
Nazareth is traditionally thought to be where Jesus grew up. The imposing Basilica of the Annunciation in central Nazareth is built on a site which many Christian faithful believe was the childhood home of Jesus’s mother, Mary.
Sharara said the town’s market stalls and the traditional Christmas church services would be held as they are every year.
Within an hour of the announcement, the Palestinian towns of Bethlehem, Jesus’s traditional birthplace, and Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank briefly.....

http://www.hawnsgist.com/2017/12/nazareth-the-home-town-of-jesus-has-cancelled-christmas-because-of-donald-trump.html
Re: Nazareth, The Home Town Of Jesus, Has Cancelled Christmas Because Of Trump by Colybaly: 6:16pm On Dec 15, 2017
smileyCT.
Re: Nazareth, The Home Town Of Jesus, Has Cancelled Christmas Because Of Trump by Nonso92(m): 6:50pm On Dec 15, 2017
Ok,

doesn't stop us from celebrating our own down here.

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