24th Dec - 12:30pm leave the Jaffa Gate and start walking to Bethlehem

1:30pm - Procession arrives

4:00pm The Shepherds field

8pm - 11:45pm Choir performing Christmas carols. Small bomb explodes to the side of Manger square. People scatter in all directions and Iraeli security forces go into over drive. Can't see that anyone is injured.

Midnight Mass celebrated in Latin

At the far end in the centre is the small entrance door to the Church of the Nativity and the traditional birth place of Jesus which can be seen by walking down the stairs to a small cave.