The network of specially designed scaffolding that has crisscrossed the inside of the Church of the Nativity for three years as an Italian team shored up the rotting 200-yearold wooden roof could, in a way, also be seen as shoring up relations among the monks of the different Christian traditions who maintain a presence there.
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