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Latin Patriarch Pierbattista Pizzaballa stops next to the separation wall between the West Bank city of Bethlehem and Jerusalem on his way to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. Pizzaballa, the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, began Christmas celebrations with an annual procession from Jerusalem to the biblical town of Bethlehem, which was hosting its second straight Christmas Eve celebrations. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)