Advanced digital imaging reveals a portrait of an unknown man beneath "Ecce Homo," an oil painting by renowned Renaissance ...

New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artist’s famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds ...

Battles this month over holidays in public schools – from Halloween in Connecticut to Christmas in Indiana – are about far more than witches, ghosts, Santa Claus or Jesus. What’s ...

This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann. The incident happened on Jan. 6. "There is not a monetary hook to ...

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The nativity scene inside the National Shrine ... for the person who stole the statuette of the baby Jesus from the display inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann.

Scientists say that the name of Christianity’s central figure wasn’t originally Jesus Christ — he went by another title in his mother tongue that’s nothing like today’s iteration ...

Originally rooted in three centers (Naples; the Provence, France; and Southern Germany and Austria), nativity sets have spread all over ... seems to have rediscovered this form of popular religious ...

Q: Where do the many Nativity motifs--Cave, Ox and Ass ... The motif of the bath is quite well known in paintings of Jesus' birth, and it conveys the conviction that he is truly human. Where does it ...