In the south of Italy, Matera is known as the “City of Stones” for its architecture. For the next season of “The Chosen,” it will be known as ancient Jerusalem.

It begins with the decree from Emperor Augustus for a census, leading Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem, where Jesus is born in a manger due to lack of room at the inn. The film depicts the angel ...

Christmas celebrations are canceled in the West Bank and the city of Bethlehem ... also unveiled this year’s nativity scene at the Vatican, portraying a baby Jesus in a crib lined with a ...

Baby Jesus in the manger. Around him ... Yet this is the scene we see, in every crèche, in every school play, in every biblical movie. It's the scene we recall in our Christmas carols.

which would be just the one Nativity scene.” Instead, it uses figures to tell different parts of the Gospel in miniature, including Mary’s annunciation and the visit of the three wise men to the ...

A Nativity scene ... 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’s organizer ...

Johny Andonia, a 39-year-old artist from Bethlehem ... s Paul VI Hall on Dec. 7. By Dec. 11, four days later, the headscarf, manger, and Jesus sculpture had been removed from the scene without ...

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 ...

The Nativity scene ... baby Jesus with a donkey and ox under a “turugium,” or tiled roof structure inside the Cave of the Nativity in Bethlehem, such as Duccio di Buonisegna’s “The ...