EDITORIAL USE ONLY - NO COMMERCIAL OR BOOK SALES. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat attends a midnight mass in St. Catherine's cathedral, adjoining the Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe Jesus Christ was born in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 25, 2000. Holiday cheer was but a ghost of Christmas past in Bethlehem, where only a handful of pilgrims braved weeks of warfare in the Holy Land to visit the birthplace of Jesus.