In a time of mystical believers, fundamentalist doctrine, occupation and religious persecution, the most famous birth in human history happens. Here in Bethlehem, a boy is born whose brief life will transform the world forever. His followers build a shrine on the site of his delivery. And through the millennia, this shrine will bear witness to hope, wonder, violence, severe conflict and death. This is the story of the last Christians of Bethlehem. Caught between an Islamic majority amongst their Palestinian brethren and a wary nation of Israel who has cut the West Bank off from Jerusalem in order to keep its citizens secure, the Christians of Bethlehem have fewer reasons than ever to stay and protect their holy sites. EXPLORER delves deep inside the history of the Church of the Nativity, the Christians that protect it, and the indelible conflicts that this church has witnessed.