Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the image of infant Jesus lying among a pile of debris in Bethlehem underscored the need for humanism to prevail over ethnic and religious hate that seemed to swamp the world.
Inaugurating the 91st Sivagiri pilgrimage at Varkala, Mr. Vijayan said that the traditional creche (set up in a Lutheran Church in the West Bank) indicated a world in deep mourning over Israel’s attempt to wipe neighbouring Palestine off the world map.
