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 ...

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season ... s traditional swaddling blanket with the black-and-white scarf — which has become a symbol of pro-Palestine ...

A Nativity scene made ... the black-and-white checkered keffiyeh has become a symbol for the Palestinian cause. But Johny Andonia, a 39-year-old artist from Bethlehem who led the project, said ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem ... of the presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered headscarf that has become a potent ...

Johny Andonia, a 39-year-old artist from Bethlehem who led ... had been removed from the scene without explanation. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, the black-and-white checkered keffiyeh has become ...

Vatican's Keffiyeh Nativity Scene Raises Eyebrows and Then Disappears — at Least Until Christmas Eve VATICAN ... presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered headscarf that has ...