This is Paul Billington with another edition of the Bible in the News - and somehow this annual "mass," known to the world as CHRIST-MAS, always gets into the news headlines. Along with news about shopping and the amount of cash-turnover, the weather and holiday traffic, the usual pro-Palestinian tid-bit from Bethlehem - the Queen's message and the pope's, it really is a major publicity stunt for those churches that claim the name "Christian".
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