CRIPPLED GREEK GIRL WALKS AS MOTHER SEEKS MIRACLE IN BETHLEHEM CHURCH AFTER CLOSURE LIFTED, 1997-08-28...

Julia Anthrapulo (L), with the hand of another relative (unseen), helps her daughter Helena to walk, August 28, after the crippled 5-year-old was laid down on the holy site in the Grotto in the Church of the Nativity where according to tradition Jesus Christ was born. Anthrapulo, who lives in the northern Greek region of Macedonia, says the family is on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land seeking divine intervention for her daughter who was born with a debilitating bone disease which left her handicapped from birth. The family waited for two days to enter Bethlehem before Israel lifted its month-long closure on the biblical city. The family is calling it a miracle. MIDEAST CHRISTIANS