Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh received on Monday at his office in Ramallah an invitation to attend the Christmas Eve midnight Mass on the 24th of December at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem from Father Ibrahim Faltas , Advisor to the Custody of the Holy Land and representative of the Franciscan Friars of Palestine, in the presence of Dr. Ramzi Khoury, President of the Higher Presidential Committee of Churches Affairs and Rula Maayah, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities.
Prime Minister Shtayyeh congratulated all Christian denominations and the Palestinian nation on the occasion of Christmas as it is approaching ,wishing to celebrate it soon in an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital .
