World celebrate Christmas

Updated: 2005-12-25 09:02

Palestinian man and girl look at a procession in front of the Nativity church in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Christmas Eve December 24, 2005. Hopes of a rush of pilgrims lifted the mood a little in Bethlehem on Saturday as the town where Christians believe Jesus was born prepared to mark its first Christmas walled from Jerusalem. [Reuters]