- According to a June 2016 pamphlet from the Presidential Committee, there were to that point 25 project contributors. This list includes the following: The State of Palestine, the Republic of Hungary, Mr. Saeed Tawfiq Khoury-CCC, The Palestine Investment Bank, the Republic of France, The Russian Federation, The Holy See-Vatican, The Palestinian Investment Fund, The Palestinian Commercial Bank, The Bank of Palestine, the Republic of Greece, Mr. Alberto Kassis – Chile, Mr. José Said – Chile, the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate, the Kingdom of Spain, the Pontifical Mission, the Armenian Orthodox Patriarchate, the Republic of Italy, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Republic of Poland, the Paltel Group – Palestine, the Turkish Cooperation – TIKA, the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, Belgium. (This list is sorted in respective order of the committed contribution date.)
- The main phases were: Phase I: 2013: organization of the worksite; 2013–15: restoration of the roof and windows. Phase II: 2014–15: doors of narthex and basilica; 2014–17: narthex. Phase III: 2014–17: external facades; 2014–16: plastering; 2015–16: wall mosaics; 2015–16: architraves. Phase IV: 2016– present: columns and paints; 2017: lighting and smoke-detection system; 2018–present: floor mosaics.
- Future phases will include: remaining columns and paints; remaining floor mosaics; stone floor; and seismic reinforcements of the north and south corners, and the south wall.
- No indication is given yet for work on the important Grotto holy site, that is, the cave grotto itself, with its altars, mosaics and other decorations. Also, no indication is given for restoration/conservation of the fresco paintings in the Franciscan chapel at the base of the northern belltower, that is, in bay 5 at the northern end of the narthex of the church.
- Michele Bacci, The Mystic Cave: A History of the Nativity Church in Bethlehem (Brno and Rome, 2017).
- M. Bacci, G. A. Fichera, et al., “Historical and Archaeological Analysis of the Church of the Nativity,” Journal of Cultural Heritage 13 (2012): 5–26.
- Bacci, The Mystic Cave, 131, n. 48, points out the confusion over the technique, now clarified by the restorations.
- Ibid., 76.
- Ibid., 107–110.
- John of Würzburg, lines 166–167, in R. B. C. Huygens, ed., Peregrinationes tres (Turnhout, 1994), 85.
- John of Würzburg, in John Wilkinson, ed. and trans., Jerusalem Pilgrimage (London, 1988), 272.
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