WEST BANK: FESTIVE AIR IN BETHLEM'S MANGER SQUARE AS PILGRIMS AND WORKERS PREPARE FOR POPE'S MASS

Record ID: 565943

  • Title: WEST BANK: FESTIVE AIR IN BETHLEM'S MANGER SQUARE AS PILGRIMS AND WORKERS PREPARE FOR POPE'S MASS
  • Date: 22nd March 2000
  • Summary: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK (MARCH 22 2000) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS: CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY AT SUNRISE (6 SHOTS) 0.42 2. SLV: CROWD BARRIERS BEING ERECTED; FLAGS, ILLUMINATED CROSS; POPE AND ARAFAT POSTER; STAGE AND SCENE IN MANAGER SQUARE (7 SHOTS) 1.34 3. SLV: PEOPLE MOVING IN FOR MASS; GRAFFITI; FLAGS; GENERALSCENES OF TOWN (7 SHOTS) 2.04 4. SV SOUNDBITE (Arabic) SAHI SAND, REFUGEE AT DHEISHEH REFUGEE CAMP, SPEAKS:"I don't think that as a Palestinian citizen this visit will give me any of my rights." 2.14 5. VARIOUS: SECURITY (2 SHOTS) 2.31 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 6th April 2000 13:00
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  • Location: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAERCD2GRZGSOK9V85ANO2TRGD4
  • Story Text: There was a festive air in Bethlehem's Manger Square
    as pilgrims and workers prepared for a historic mass to be
    celebrated by Pope John Paul 11.

    Manger square was bathed in heavy security on Wednesday
    (March 22)morning.As the sun rose on the Church of the
    Nativity, one of Christendom's holiest sites, soldiers mingled
    with the workers putting up yellow ribbons and hanging flags.

    But not everyone is excited at the prospect of the Pope's
    visit.

    "I don't think that as a Palestinian citizen this visit
    will give me any of my rights," said Sahi Sand, from the
    Dheisheh refugee camp that the pope will later visit.
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