Hundreds of Christians in Gaza Travel to Bethlehem for Pope Visit

Several hundred Christians from the Gaza Strip will be allowed to leave the Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory to travel to the West Bank for Pope Francis’s visit to Bethlehem May 25. In the meantime, volunteers from the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation (HCEF) have been hammering chips of concrete from the wall that separates Israel from the Palestinian Territories to create a cross to give to the Pontiff.