Bethlehem is always a focus at this time of year.

Like so many of us around the world, its people have spent 2020 in and out of lockdown and they are spending Christmas under a strict curfew. 

But in a place built on a story of faith, in a region where people have lived through huge challenges, Sky’s Middle East correspondent Mark Stone found hope not despair.  

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