The nativity offers an enticing opportunity to discover how words and interpretations have shaped the story and our understanding of it. ... the now typical jokes pile up on social media.

The nativity play can be a tear-jerking event at Christmastime. Parents see their little ones dressed up as sheep or angels, and it’s one of the highlights of the school calendar.

A joke about Theresa May has topped a national competition to find the best contemporary Christmas cracker gag. The winning line was: "Why was Theresa May sacked as nativity manager?

Mary was having none of a sheep's Jesus-stealing shenanigans during the First Baptist Church of White Pine, Tennessee's nativity pageant.

This is the hilarious moment James O'Brien told a joke about the Greggs' Sausage Roll Nativity - and a caller told him off for it. James asked for listeners to call if they were genuinely upset by the ...