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..Pilgrims in the Church of the Nativity, believed to be the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 24, 2009. The Christmas celebrations cap a year when tourists and Christian pilgrims returned to Bethlehem, where tradition holds the Prince of Peace was born, in numbers unseen since the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian violence at the turn of the millennium...© ALESSIO ROMENZI