In the Gospels, the only mention of a donkey is during Jesus' messianic entry into Jerusalem, riding on a donkey ... naturally incorporated it into the Nativity scene. This inclusion is based ...

More than 160 people attended St Bartholomew’s Church for its annual production, which also starred a Shetland pony named Lyndsey as a “donkey ... Sylvia Scudamore played Mary and Jack Starmer-Smith ...

My niece and nephew recently starred in their school nativity play ... being the back end of the donkey. Anyway, I spoke to a few of the parents before the play began – you know, when you ...

But she told me firmly that it didn’t matter who played Mary, everyone was important, everyone was part of the play ... church on a real donkey, and it was lovely – again, as far as I could tell ...

A Nativity play is a production that tells the story ... Children dress as angels, shepherds, wise men, and key figures like Mary, Joseph, and King Herod. Sometimes they also portray animals, such as ...

The account does not tell us how they travelled – and riding a donkey while ... from the school nativity play. The one who says, “There’s no room at the inn,” to Mary, Joseph – and ...

Terrington Hall School pupils performed a lively nativity play for their families ... featuring roles such as sheep, donkey, shepherds, angels, kings, Mary, and Joseph. The performance, which ...

The French tune which is about the gifts that a donkey, cow, sheep, camel, and dove gave to Jesus at the Nativity was ... local villagers to play the roles of Mary and Joseph.

On school stages up and down the country, children or cardboard cut-outs of animals are used to play ... riding in to see the baby Jesus on real camels. Credit: ITV News In the nativity, Mary ...

An anonymous teacher has revealed why certain children are given the parts of Mary and Joseph and why some are the sheep... It's that time of year when children up and down the UK are busy preparing ...