Yahoo News: For centuries, Christians have been making the pilgrimage to Bethlehem to pay their respects to Jesus — except they may have been making a wrong turn.
According to NPR and the London Times, the son of Mary wasn’t born in the little town of Bethlehem in Palestine’s West Bank area. Instead, archaeologists think it’s the little village called Bethlehem of the Galilee, about 100 miles north. As if shifting a well-traveled holy route wouldn’t be awkward enough, the United Nations just designated Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity as a

UNESCO World Heritage Site in November — the first for Palestine. This year, AFP reported that an estimated 15,000 are visiting Bethlehem. People even pay homage online: Searches on Yahoo! have rise for “bethlehem” (+109%), “o little town of bethelem lyrics” (+50%), and (“bethlehem israel” off the charts) in the past day.
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