Like light dispelling darkness, a ray of hope 'midst the bleak-gray sky, stands a wonderful place. A place of hope. A place where the young come because there is no other garden-place of peace. But the star shines only for Bethlehem. Palestinian Christians can no longer come from Gaza, or other places of the West Bank, to study here.
Travel is forbidden.
You see, for Palestinians, Bethlehem, like Palestine, is a prison. Employment, housing, human rights, justice and peace. Too many Palestinians have moved away, most of them Christians. This is a great tragedy for the Church. Without local Christians, we will end up with empty churches, and hollow shrines.