The Nativity scene was crafted by artists from Bethlehem using ... along with the baby Jesus, papal spokesperson Matteo Bruni told RNS it’s customary for the statue of Jesus to be removed ...

A woman who had faced a felony charge for allegedly stealing a statue of the Baby Jesus from the Nativity display at Bethlehem City Hall Plaza has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Tuesday 50 ...

The atmosphere in Bethlehem, the town where Jesus was born ... It was there, at the end of the Christmas Eve Mass, that the patriarch placed the statue of the baby Jesus. As the day was coming to an ...

Known as “the Bethlehem of the West,” it ... a grand altarpiece painting and a statue depict St. Cajetan holding the Infant Jesus. At Christmastime, the Sant’Andrea Basilica hosts an ...

When the pope stopped to pray before the Bethlehem creche at the end of his general audience Dec. 11, the baby Jesus statue and kaffiyeh-draped manger were gone. The Vatican press office offered ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem ... Jesus in the Nativity scene on the night of Christmas Eve. It is typical for the whole scene to be first presented to the pope before the Jesus ...

Johny Andonia, a 39-year-old artist from Bethlehem who led the project ... scene to be first presented to the pope before the Jesus statue is then removed, leaving behind the empty manger until ...

Vatican Media) To decry the nativity scene, however, is to deny the centuries-long history of artists depicting the Holy Family in Bethlehem ... artists depicting baby Jesus with a donkey ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Away in a manger on Bethlehem’s public square, a woman approached a statue of the baby Jesus one dark, December night. Then she stole it. M Mitch Smith Follow The theft ...

During this time, an angel appeared to shepherds who were watching their flocks in the fields near Bethlehem. The angel told them the good news of the birth of the Savior and Messiah, Jesus Christ.

"Our hearts are in Bethlehem, where the Prince of Peace ... moved down the basilica with the life-sized statue of Baby Jesus on his lap and flanked by children carrying bouquets.