VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its original place on the manger of the Palestinian-made Nativity scene in the ...

In 2013, the church’s nativity set received national attention for replacing baby Jesus with Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American student who was fatally shot in 2012.

Each year, Greccio, Italy, reenacts a living Nativity scene paying homage to Saint Francis of Assisi, who is credited with starting the exhibition that represents the birth of Jesus.

For decades of American history, nativity scenes depicting the birth of Jesus Christ were traditionally part of public holiday displays. Many town squares across the nation prominently displayed ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity scene that was crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024.

To criticize the Vatican’s nativity with a now-removed Jesus in a keffiyeh would be to dismiss the artistic history of crèches centering marginalized people.

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 ...

ROME – In the wake of global controversy over a Nativity scene displayed at the Vatican showing the infant Jesus resting upon a Palestinian keffiyeh, widely seen as a pro-Palestinian statement ...

The Nativity of Bethlehem 2024, located in Paul VI hall, featured the baby Jesus wrapped in a kaffiyeh, a scarf traditional to the Palestinian people.

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 ...