Jerusalem’s dwindling Christians celebrate the Holy Fire on Orthodox Easter

5/5/13 The annual rite at the 1500-year-old Church of the Holy Sepulcher attracted fewer local faithful as Christians across the region are caught up in various conflicts. This is the sixth in a series of posts about dwindling Christian communities in the  Middle East . JERUSALEM — A procession of Armenian Orthodox Christians wound from their quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City to the barred gate of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.