Archbishop Charles Jason Gordon says it’s important to keep Jesus central during the Christmas season, despite the busyness and challenges of the world.

Speaking to Newsday after the blessing of the creche at the Archbishop’s House on Maraval Road, Port of Spain, on December 13, Gordon said this Christmas is a special one.

“The society is experiencing pain from poverty like we've not seen for a while. We have all the tensions with the geopolitics landing at our shores and surrounding us. But when Jesus Christ was born, we had the same kind of drama happening in the world at that time, where Herod as a false King, as a puppet of Rome, inside of Israel and the oppression of Israel. All the tensions were there.