Bridgeport to establish sister city ties with Bethlehem

After years of being the only major Connecticut metro that did not have a sister city relationship with a foreign location, Bridgeport is moving to establish a bond with Bethlehem in the West Bank.

Mayor Joe Ganim used the City of Bridgeport Facebook page to share the news while offering a photograph of himself at the Church of the Nativity at the end of what he dubbed a “substantive journey to the Holy Land.” Ganim acknowledged his Bethlehem counterpart, Mayor Vera Baboun, in establishing this new relationship between the cities.

“Together I hope to forge stronger economic, cultural and educational ties with the people of Bridgeport and this beautiful and sacred city in the hills near Jerusalem,” Ganim wrote on Facebook. “God be with you all.”