Daily Inter Lake – ITALIAN FIRM RESTORING NATIVITY CHURCH: LIKE TOUCHING HEAVEN

ROME (AP) — The Italian firm restoring one of Christianity’s holiest sites — the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem — says it’s more than halfway finished with the 14 million-euro project, which has already uncovered a Crusades-era mosaic angel hidden under plaster. Piacenti SpA, a family-run conservation firm from the Tuscan town of Prato, …

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BBC – Angel mosaic revealed at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity

Italian restoration workers at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem have been showing off a stunning mosaic of an angel that was previously hidden beneath plaster. Tensions between different Christian denominations have long delayed urgently-needed repairs at the church. But the Palestinian Authority brokered a deal between them enabling …