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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. he's invited israeli and palestinian leaders to come for a peace talk to end the conflict. >> the president's office released this statement, the office of the president welcomes the invitation by pope francis. let's bring in vatican correspondent dale yeah gallagher. the pope also called palestine -- i noticed this even in the press releases, the state of palestine, not just the palestinian territory. how significant is tha...

It's time now it's time now for one more thing. i'm going to kick it off. we've 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. where's 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, completely frozen. keep sending us your picks and we'll retweet them. >> who's next? >> kimberly. >> ...

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 matthew's 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? is i would have in their position. already it would have been a very intimidating place for

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 christmas. and then on january 19th, we have armenian christmas. so it's a very special place in christia...

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 something which must transform the whole of one's life true one's life. >> coming up next our tour of bethl...