Churches, schools and other public places may set up crèches as well. Some celebrate with a live Nativity scene that includes actors and animals playing the parts of the Holy Family and the visitors ...

Organizers for the annual Nativity have arranged ... to play the role of the Holy Family, the Wise Men, shepherds and an angel each holiday season. Live animals have always been a part of the ...

but the sounds of children at Westminster Presbyterian Church's 10th Annual Live nativity were decidedly angelic. Dressed as shepherds and the Holy Family, their voices proclaimed 'Joy to the ...

And yet these nativity scenes aren’t much more far ... “three kings,” Jesus’s birth in a stable, a fair-skinned holy family. Some are relatively harmless—the understandable result ...

The Vatican’s 2021 Nativity scene hails from Chopcca, Peru, a small town high in the Andes. Native dress and local animals are included ... contexts.” The Holy Father concluded: “Dear ...

While the Nativity traditionally includes ... The manger with its Holy Family, the shepherds and farm animals, bring other thoughts to Thublin’s mind: “The magnitude of the gift from the ...

Costumed children will round out the scene, along with Beth and Justin Hanson portraying the Holy Family with their ... the test of time. Animals for the live Nativity were provided by Nelson ...

(RNS) — Faithful America is encouraging the toy company to portray Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus as people of color. (RNS) — Fisher-Price’s deluxe Little People Christmas Story playset ...