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Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City is named after Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. According to tradition, the Holy Family passed through Gaza during their flight into Egypt after the visit of the Magi, when Herod ordered the massacre of the innocents.

Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City is named after Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City is named after Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. 
 
According to tradition, the Holy Family passed through Gaza during their flight into Egypt after the visit of the Magi, when Herod ordered the massacre of the innocents.

 https://x.com/chunguskitten/status/2003855424299393137

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The Flight into Egypt, stained glass in a choir chapel, Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, Paris, FranceFortunately, all the stained-glass windows survived the fire in April 2019. https://www.friendsofnotredamedeparis.org/the-stained-glass-of-notre-dame-de-paris/

  

Merry Christmas from Times Square- from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) which was founded in 1980 in response to stereotyping, defamation, and discrimination directed against Americans of Arab origin.

New York Times Square!   https://x.com/adc


 

Merry Christmas from Times Square! From all of us at the @adc family!

 


 https://adc.org/ 

In 1980, Senator James George Abourezk founded the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in response to stereotyping, defamation, and discrimination directed against Americans of Arab origin.

ADC is the largest Arab American grassroots organization in the U.S. We defend civil and human rights, fight discrimination, promote understanding of Arab history and culture, and partner across communities to advance social justice.

Every person in the U.S., including students, workers, immigrants, and protesters, has the right to speak freely, peacefully assemble, and challenge injustice.

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Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one: Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path.... "This Christmas, our invitation to the global church — and to Western Christians in particular — is to remember where the story began. To remember that Bethlehem is not a myth but a place where people still live. If the Christian world is to honour the meaning of Christmas, it must turn its gaze to Bethlehem — not the imagined one, but the real one, a town whose people today still cry out for justice, dignity and peace." Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac

Merry Christmas from Palestine- a message from Ambassador Dr. Husam Zomlot -Christmas 2025

 Palestine in the UK

A #Christmas2025 message from H.E. Ambassador @hzomlot
 
This Christmas, people across the United Kingdom will gather with loved ones to mark a season of reflection, generosity, and hope. 
 
In the birthplace of Jesus, #Palestine, our people will also be celebrating Christmas despite all that they have endured and continue to endure. 
 
For Palestinians, Christmas has a special significance. It is part of our living heritage, of which we are all proud—a long history of coexistence and tolerance. 
 
This year, the Palestinian Christian community in Bethlehem will officially celebrate Christmas for the first time in two years, lighting a giant tree in front of the Holy Church of the Nativity. 
 
The message of Christmas resonates powerfully with all Palestinians—love, hope, joy, compassion, and peace. Especially in today’s world, we should remember that these are not just abstract ideals—they are moral obligations. 
 
As many of us celebrate warmth and togetherness, families in Gaza are enduring a harsh winter under siege, without adequate shelter, food, or heating. 
 
In East Jerusalem and the West Bank, our people face an uncertain future, violence, and expulsion from their homes and land. 
 
Your compassion, your love, your courage, and your refusal to look away have given us strength. 
 
Your voices calling out injustice have given us hope. 
 
For Palestinians, hope itself has become an act of courage—an insistence that even in the darkest moments, our humanity cannot be erased. 
 
Christmas is often described as a time of hope. 
 
This Christmas, let us hope that the coming year will bring us closer to a just and lasting peace.

 https://x.com/Palestine_in_UK/status/2003468116903264291

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Israel approves 19 new illegal settlements further limiting Palestinain movement and undermining the prospect of a two-state solution to end the Israel/Palestine conflict.


Illegal settlement expansion: How Israel is redrawing occupied West Bank

Israel’s approval of 19 new settlements stands to redraw the occupied West Bank, undermining prospect of two-state solution.

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

‘Treated as criminals’: Gaza fishermen risk everything at sea Facing starvation, Palestinians turn to the sea to feed their families, risking imprisonment or death

A displaced Palestinian fisherman casts his net on the beach in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on 20 November 2025 (Eyad Baba/AFP)
By Maha Hussaini in Gaza City and Mohammed al-Hajjar in Nuseirat