Pope Francis has sent a clear message to Israel after unveiling this year’s Christmas nativity scene in St Peter’s Square. The display features a baby Jesus, lying on a manger lined with the ...

DENVER — A baby Jesus figurine snatched from a nativity scene in Colorado has been returned in time for Christmas, with an apology. The statuette of Jesus lying in a manger, stolen from a public ...

"I've done a lot of things, but I have never played a camel crossing the desert helping to find the baby jesus," the actress ... a fun retelling of the nativity for kids. Oprah Winfrey In the ...

(RNS) — In Advent of last year, a Nativity scene at the Vatican briefly showed the baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh, along with the spurious declaration that “Jesus was Palestinian.” ...

Claremont United Methodist Church transformed its Christmas nativity scene into a powerful statement about family separation by caging their figures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and releasing a ...

Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive ... as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on. The symbolically charged nativity scene is already turning ...

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Known as “the Blessing of the Bambinelli” (Italian for “baby dolls”), it calls for children to remove the baby Jesus figure from a nativity scene at home and bring it ...