On quiet nights during the Christmas season, Ed O’Malley enjoys visiting the Nativity scene he helps set up every year in an Arlington Heights park. He’ll check whether the wind has blown over ...

A Must-See Holiday Celebration: Black Nativity: A Gospel Christmas Musical ... The angels, dressed in flowing and radiant white caftans, appear ethereal, with gold-thread embellishments ...

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new ... the baby Jesus’s traditional swaddling blanket with the black-and-white scarf — which has become a symbol of pro-Palestine activism.

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

The Vatican has removed a nativity scene sculpture of baby Jesus swaddled ... The addition of the traditional black-and-white checkered scarf, which has become a symbol of Palestinian support ...

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 ...

INSIDE, A CRUSHED MUSEUM DISPLAYS MORE THAN 2000 NATIVITY SCENES FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD ... BECAUSE WE GET MORE OUT OF IT THAN THEY DO. DUFF WHITE AND HIS FAMILY HAVE VOLUNTEERED ON THANKSGIVING ...

The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main audience hall had generated headlines when it was unveiled Dec. 7 because of the presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered headscarf ...

(RNS) — The scene ... nativity crèche is looking a bit different. The manger has been replaced with a pile of rocks, and the baby Jesus is swaddled not with a thin blanket but with a black-and ...

There’s a scene in my favorite Christmas movie ... where his is the lone white face in an all-Black congregation. The singing pastor waves him inside and he receives smiles and nods ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A nativity scene on public property is again stirring anger in an eastern Iowa town. This time, that anger is directed mostly at an out-of-town atheist group who are ...

I just gave it (‘Black Nativity’) a fresh perspective by showing how relevant it is today.” A scene from Common Ground Theatre’s production of Langston Hughes’ gospel-filled “Black ...