Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus ...

Most people are familiar with the story of Jesus Christ’s birth. Come Christmastime, Nativity scenes in towns and ... new religion changed the ancient world.

Someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from the National Shrine of St. John Neumann, the director said.

papal spokesperson Matteo Bruni told RNS it’s customary for the statue of Jesus to be removed from the Nativity scene until Christmas Day. But on Saturday (Jan. 4), when the Paul VI Hall was ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now been placed in the nativity scene without the kefiah. In the Paul VI Hall ...

The classic nativity scene many of us have in ... a virgin — Mary — gives birth to a baby — Jesus — shining a new light on the world for those that follow. The difference in how that ...

with Bethlehem and the birth -- the Nativity. Just trying to tell people the story of Jesus.” The church uses a trailer belonging to a member to put the scene together. It was sitting in the lot ...