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London: It is one of the Christmas story’s central and most enduring elements - the sighting of a bright star in the skies guiding the Wise Men to Bethlehem and heralding the birth of Jesus Christ.
But the Vatican has now said it believes the glare from the Star of Bethlehem may have been caused by what is known as a “Great Conjunction” of planets, bringing Venus and Jupiter in close alignment and creating an unusually bright light in the sky above the Holy Land.
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
And the phenomenon which could have caused such awe more than 2000 years ago is set to happen again - just four days before Christmas.
Dec 18, 2020
Tell one of the world’s most influential news sources to stop blaming Israel for Hamas’ brutal persecution of Palestinian Christians.
“A December 10 Reuters piece written by Nidal al-Mughrabi rightly draws attention to the plight of Christians in the Gaza Strip,” writes HonestReporting’s Gidon Ben-Zvi. “Yet the writer comes down with a case of selective amnesia, neglecting to note the history of persecution of this tiny minority by Gaza’s rulers.”
Ben-Zvi continues, “Israel’s blockade of the Strip – imposed to repel incessant attempts by the Hamas terrorist group to attack the Jewish state – is assigned a disproportionate amount of the blame for the precarious state of the Palestinian enclave’s Christians.”
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London: It is one of the Christmas story’s central and most enduring elements - the sighting of a bright star in the skies guiding the Wise Men to Bethlehem and heralding the birth of Jesus Christ.
But the Vatican has now said it believes the glare from the Star of Bethlehem may have been caused by what is known as a “Great Conjunction” of planets, bringing Venus and Jupiter in close alignment and creating an unusually bright light in the sky above the Holy Land.
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
And the phenomenon which could have caused such awe more than 2000 years ago is set to happen again - just four days before Christmas.
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