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Welcome back. this morning pope francis in bethlehem. what a vision this is. he made a surprise stop at the separation wall between the city and jury room. lo jers let me. hes invited israeli and palestinian leaders to come for a peace talk to end the conflict. >> the presidents office released this statement, the office of the president welcomes the invitation by pope francis. lets bring in vatican correspondent dale yeah gallagher. the pope also called palestine -- i noticed this even in the p...

Its time now its time now for one more thing. im going to kick it off. weve been looking at all of the pictures you sent me. you tweeted me. check these pictures out from jeff, a snowy day at lehigh university in bethlehem, pennsylvania. also, jody sent a street in cold water, ohio. wheres the road? that looks really cold. andrea, south louisiana this morning, a frozen fountain. jordan, our fountain may be frozen, but the sun is shining. from sea way, new york, the saint laurence river, comple...

Jerusalem built the palace on top of macada. he built another fortress palace. >> he is respected as the greatest builder but reviled as a paranoid mad man who killed his wife three of the children and the rabbi of the jewish dynasty. in matthews gospel when the magi followed their star to jerusalem and asked herod where the king of the jews had been born he commanded soldiers to kill all of the babies in bethlehem. the slaughter of the innocent. >> would mary and joseph felt o oppre oppressed? ...

Called icon -- with silver and gold depictions of saints and the holy family and this is seen as a connecting point between heaven and earth. to our right we have the armenian altar. and to the left, a small altar as well. here, in bethlehem, we get christmas three times. we have christmas on december 25th for the western right and the catholics who celebrate christmas mass there and then bring a doll of jesus and put it in the grotto of the nativity. on january 7th, we have greek orthodox chris...

Scholars typically come up with a date of say 6 or 7 b.c. for the birth of christ. >> over the past 2,000 years pa fact and fiction has been combined for the christian celebration. for christians only one thing is essential. >> i think there are people looking for facts and there are people looking for fiction. i think people of faith look for truth. i think in both narratives there is the truth. and truth sometimes goes a lot deeper and a lot further. >> request the story of jesus it is somethi...

Monasteries in bethlehem and commemorated a sitehere where some would say facts, fiction and faith comere together. the grotto,, a site whereed w tradition says the holy family hid when herod sent his soldier to kill all the babies in bethlehem. >> according to the first christian belief, while o mary was nursing her baby here some drops of her milk cav fell to the ground. >> tradition says a miracle occurred in this cave a short distance from jesusalls birth site when the drops to of marys milk...

Village life into jesus time is reenacted in the open air museum on passion farmland on modern nazareth. it was a relatively new town when jesus grew up here. >> scripture says jesus of nazareth but it also says he was born in bethlehem. jesus of nazareth and jesus of bethlehem. lets bring the two together. >> almost every christian in the world believes he was born in bethlehem. >> he is a methodist minister and archaeologist. >> the vast majority of critical new testament scholars have come to...

What took you so long? >> she had good reason to welcome the news. mary like jesus was gee wish and for generations profits like isaiah told the gee wish people a messiah would come and lead them to destiny. >> many jews were looking for a king and the lord himself will give you a sign. >> the virgin would conceive and bear a son. >> from noah to moses to the profits, mary answered the call and shes become an icon to more than just christians. >> in fact, in the koran, she is the only woman who ...

Expected to come from bethlehem. >> there were people who were saved. this is the time we have been counting and calculating worked out from the prophecies when this ought to occur and we think it is pretty much now. >> in recent years they have found facts to support that tradition. >> our work in the jewish villages is proving in the time of jesus 80 percent of the jews came from judea. that is bethlehem. we are not only people of faith we are people are line. archeology cant form faith. but a...

Going and really keep that community thriving here. >> ian lee, thank you for that. live for us in bethlehem. chilling 911 calls from last weeks deadly shooting in a medical office in reno, nevada. the gunman 51-year-old frazier killed a doctor and wounded two other people before taking his own life. >> did you see it happen or did you just hear it? hes coming? can you hide yourself? put yourself under a cabinet or something in case a shot is fired your way? >> you can hear the fear in her voi...