A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian keffiyeh with the child Jesus in the manger — but according to the project ...

A view of Nativity Scene is in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Dec. 7. Crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, with Baby Jesus’ crib covered by a Palestinian kaffiyeh donated by ...

Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on ...

A nativity scene featuring baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh was unveiled at Pope Francis’ Nativity Scene and Christmas Tree inauguration on Saturday in St. Peter’s Square. An installation of a ...

The Nativity scene featuring a keffiyeh that was unveiled at the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on December 7 was designed by Palestinian artists Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi of Bethlehem.

This year, the Nativity scenes were made by Bethlehem-based artisans. Representatives of the Palestinian Embassy to the Holy See, as well as special representatives of Palestinian leader Mahmoud ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that was missing its eyebrow-raising signature element: a keffiyeh ...

The 87-year-old pontiff was seen on Saturday afternoon praying before the nativity display while sitting in a wheelchair. The inauguration of the display, “Nativity of Bethlehem 2024,” was ...

On Dec. 7, 2024, Pope Francis publicly showed off the Vatican's 2024 Christmas decorations: a Nativity scene and Christmas ... The Nativity of Bethlehem 2024, located in Paul VI hall, featured ...

A creche, or a nativity scene, brings the Christmas story to life in our homes. It captures the wonder and story of Christ’s birth. Whether we arrange a simple set of figures, a well-crafted scene, or ...

In the middle of Manger Square in the Old City of Bethlehem, a group of Palestinian ... tree for yet more selfies with the life-size nativity scene for a backdrop. From our morning news briefing ...

when they had to flee Bethlehem under an oppressive ruler to Egypt, before returning to Nazareth two millennia ago. The bombed-out nativity scene is surrounded by rubble and barbed wire [Monjed ...