- The Catholic Thing - https://www.thecatholicthing.org -

COVID casts a pall over Bethlehem

If the Holy Family had a hard time finding an inn to stay in when Jesus was about to be born, it is the inns of Bethlehem themselves that are having difficulty this year. The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life in the Holy Land so much that tourism and religious pilgrimage there are practically non-existent. [1]