"Setting up a Nativity scene in your home allows your home to become another Bethlehem, a place to welcome Christ at Christmas," he added. "Nativity scenes should draw our hearts and minds to the ...

Nearly 300 years later, Moravians continue celebrating their Christmas season traditions in Bethlehem. They include the "putz," a Nativity scene that tells the story of Christ's birth with ...

Welcome to Bethlehem ... resembling a manger, with hay. There, they learn the Christmas story in detail with songs and characters walking the aisles to take their place in the scene.

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy ... infant Jesus in the Nativity scene on the night of Christmas Eve. It is typical for the whole scene to be first ...

Christmas is a very special celebration for Ticos ... Many also include the Star of Bethlehem. The assembly of the Nativity Scene is accompanied by moss, sawdust, plants, trunks, rocks, cypress ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter's Square as a Christmas ...

The wooden Nativity scene ... Christmas decorations this year, which include various depictions of the manger in a Bethlehem stable where Jesus is said to have been born. This year, the Nativity ...

The wooden Nativity scene ... Christmas decorations this year, which include various depictions of the manger in a Bethlehem stable where Jesus is said to have been born. This year, the Nativity ...

Bethlehem, occupied West Bank — This year, Bethlehem is sombre and quiet. There is no Christmas tree and ... The bombed-out nativity scene is surrounded by rubble and barbed wire [Monjed Jadou ...

Vinh said he always comes to Bethlehem to mark Christmas, but this year was especially sobering. He gazed at a nativity scene in Manger Square with a baby Jesus wrapped in a white shroud ...

A church in Bethlehem has created a nativity scene resembling the situation in war-torn Gaza, as Christmas this year approaches amid Israel’s brutal onslaught on the Palestinian enclave. The nativity ...

Families all over the world set them up at home, some as a pious devotion, others as a seasonal decoration You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account.