Youths tell of waiting, sleeping in Jesus' grotto
Saturday, April 27, 2002
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- During the first chilly nights Abed Abu Surour spent inside the Church of the Nativity, he huddled with 30 young men in the tiny stone grotto revered as the spot where Jesus was born.
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