The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fuad Twal stops next to the separation wall between the West Bank town of Bethlehem and Jerusalem on his way to the Church of Nativity on 24 December 2009. Twal, a 69-year-old Jordanian who was appointed Latin Patriarch last year, is to lead the Midnight Mass at Bethlehem's early medieval Church of the Nativity, built according to Christian tradition on the site of the stable where Jesus was born. Photo by Issam Rimawi