Just weeks before Christmas, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, located in the West Bank, unveiled a new display of the nativity scene that shows baby Jesus lying in a manger amid rubble.

Athena, baby Arthur and Sam Reinhard play the Mary, Jesus and Joseph characters in St. Andrews Lutheran Church’s Bethlehem Walk nativity pageant Dec. 2, 2023. Sam Reinhard is associate pastor at ...

Christ in the Rubble nativities have popped up around the world after a Palestinian pastor, Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bethlehem, invented the new take on the nativity ...

The 2023 nativity scene at the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church of Bethlehem (photo by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac and used with permission) Much like the long history of nativity scenes themselve ...

Join the members of St. Paul, St. Matthew, Bethany and Grace Lutheran churches ... presentations at the nativity will take place every 15 minutes. Meet the shopkeepers of Bethlehem, King Herod ...

In many homes, the Nativity scene, illustrating the birth of Jesus, is probably the most important holiday decoration. On Friday, Dec. 6, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Appleton, the Nativity scene ...

A white and gold Nativity, complete with the little town of Bethlehem, gleams in the sanctuary of Trinity Lutheran Church of Appleton during the Festival of Nativities. Dozens of different ...

(KOLN) - On Dec. 14 and 15, Peace Lutheran Church members set up their very own Bethlehem at the Red Willow ... and she came up with the idea of a living nativity.” Phil’s wife Janice ...

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 ...