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Monday, December 29, 2025

Feliz Navidad 2025- Nativity scene made by the follower Elduayen Navallas Roc, a Franciscan tertiary from Navarre.

Feliz Navidad 2025- Nativity scene made by the follower Elduayen Navallas Roc, a Franciscan tertiary from Navarre.

 P. Gabriel Romanelli

Translated from Spanish 

Today the Church also remembers the Holy Innocents, little lights that departed before their time, but whose offering remains alive in the heart of our faith. 
 
May their memory invite us to be protectors of life, to care for the purity of the smallest ones, and to remember that, even in moments of darkness, innocence shines with an unstoppable force. 
 
May they intercede for all the children of the world.  
 
In the images, one can see a nativity scene made by the follower Elduayen Navallas Roc, a Franciscan tertiary from Navarre.
 

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Feliz Navidad 2025- Nativity scene made by the follower Elduayen Navallas Roc, a Franciscan tertiary from Navarre.

 
Feliz Navidad 2025- Nativity scene made by the follower Elduayen Navallas Roc, a Franciscan tertiary from Navarre.

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Bethlehem, Palestine today ... Christmas Day 2025... "The birthplace of Jesus - Bethlehem, [Palestine] 🇵🇸 - is walled off from the world by Israel, shrunk to less than 15% of its size by land grab & isolated from its twin city Jerusalem. Yet Christmas for Palestinians is a joyous national holiday of hope in justice. Merry Christmas to all." Nour Odeh

Bethlehem, Palestine today ✨

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The birthplace of Jesus - Bethlehem, [Palestine] 🇵🇸 - is walled off from the world by Israel, shrunk to less than 15% of its size by land grab & isolated from its twin city Jerusalem. Yet Christmas for Palestinians is a joyous national holiday of hope in justice. Merry Christmas to all.

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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, France- Fortunately, 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 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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Sunday, December 21, 2025

Dallas church’s Nativity evokes immigration detention centers, homelessness: The Nativity scene asks passersby to consider what it would look like if Jesus’ birth took place today.

Oak Lawn United Methodist Church’s Nativity scene depicts silhouettes of Mary and Joseph surrounded by chain-link fencing topped with razor wire. “I feel it doesn't make the story more political, it makes it more biblical. It invites us back into the raw and difficult nature of the true setting of the story,” said senior pastor Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison.    
Dallas Morning News story by Marcheta Fornoff 

 
Oak Lawn United Methodist Church’s Nativity scene depicts silhouettes of Mary and Joseph surrounded by chain-link fencing topped with razor wire. “I feel it doesn't make the story more political, it makes it more biblical. It invites us back into the raw and difficult nature of the true setting of the story,” said senior pastor Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison.... READ MORE  https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/2025/12/17/dallas-churchs-nativity-evokes-immigration-detention-centers-homelessness/

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Oak Lawn UMC Reveals Nativity Display Lifting Up the Journey of Migrant Families

Social Media Statement:

This installation on our front steps reimagines the Nativity in the reality faced by thousands of families fleeing violence, poverty, and political instability. The Holy Family were migrants seeking safety. In Dallas, many families face the same uncertainty.  At Christmas, we remember that God chooses to be with those the world pushes to the margins. May this scene call us to make room — in our hearts, in our city, in our policies — for the Christ who comes as an unhoused immigrant child.

Full Press Release:

Dallas, TX — Oak Lawn United Methodist Church has unveiled a powerful new public installation on its front steps this Advent season—an artistic reimagining of the traditional Nativity that places the Holy Family in the lived reality of thousands of migrants and asylum-seeking families today.

The installation invites the Dallas community to see the Christmas story through the eyes of those fleeing violence, poverty, and political instability. Reflecting on the piece, Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison, Senior Pastor of Oak Lawn UMC, said, “The Holy Family were migrants seeking safety. In Dallas, many families face the same uncertainty.”

By grounding the Nativity in a contemporary humanitarian crisis, the church hopes to spark deeper compassion and honest reflection during the holidays.

“At Christmas, we remember that God chooses to be with those the world pushes to the margins,” said Rev. Griffin-Allison. “May this scene call us to make room—in our hearts, in our city, in our policies—for the Christ who comes as an unhoused immigrant child.”

Oak Lawn UMC serves as a key community hub for hospitality ministries, including outreach to unsheltered neighbors and support for recently arrived migrant families through Dallas Responds. This installation reflects the congregation’s ongoing commitment to embodying solidarity, justice, and radical welcome.

The Nativity will be on display throughout the Advent and Christmas season. Community members are encouraged to visit, take photos, and reflect on how the story of Christ’s birth speaks into the urgent realities facing Dallas today.

Press Contact:
Rev. Ryan Wager
Associate Pastor & Operations Leader
Email ryan@olumc.org
Wireless 405-213-8944

 https://olumc.org/nativity-2025/

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Tuesday, December 2, 2025

On the last day of the Pope’s journey, a rainbow graces the shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa.

On the last day of the Pope’s journey, a rainbow graces the shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in Harissa. 

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Harîssa, this morning, Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon, a rainbow greets the last day of Pope Leo’s journey
 
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