BETHLEHEM, Pa. — About three dozen people stood in solidarity on Christmas Eve morning.
With a Christmas nativity scene and a 43-foot holiday spruce as a backdrop at Payrow Plaza outside City Hall, and with a large menorah close by, area clergy assembled to make a statement they said was unprecedented.
Calling for more from themselves and their neighbors, Lehigh Valley church leadership demanded Bethlehem never forget its Palestinian namesake city in the West Bank.
Calling especially on fellow Christians this holiday season, 10 clergy out of Bethlehem reflected on what they said was an urgent need for solidarity with Palestine…