LIFE IS HARD BUT WE WANT TO STAY HERE

"What we are trying to do - stated Charlie and the others - is to approach our youth to try and make them stay here". Life in Bethlehem has become much more difficult, both for Christians and Muslims, after the construction of the wall around the town in 2003. All the people who want to go to Jerusalem, which is just ten kilometres away but is in the Israeli land, must have special permits, and are forced to go through the checks of the roadblocks, "which create pressure - they added - even a psychological pressure, a tremendous one: we can bear much, but how shall we explain children all this?" Economic and social difficulties encouraged the Christian communities in Bethlehem to collaborate to a higher extent, "but - they said - we are nevertheless few". "For this reason - they concluded - tell the people about us, tell them there is a small community of Christian Arabs preserving their faith and trying to resist in the Holy Land".
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