Bahrain live Nativity rescheduled for Christmas Eve
By CRISTINA SILVA
Stars and Stripes
Published: December 14, 2012
Servicemembers in Bahrain will have a live Nativity scene after all.
The performance has been rescheduled for Christmas Eve after an atheist group complained that the original event to be held during the base tree-lighting ceremony amounted to command sponsorship of a Christian holiday and threatened the safety of servicemembers in the Muslim-majority country.
“The Nativity scene being held on ... Dec. 24 will be very similar to the originally scheduled program,” said base spokeswoman Jennifer Stride.
Stride would not explain why the initial Nativity performance was canceled.
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