MATERA, Italy — Matera, in the south of Italy, is known as the “City of Stones” for its architecture. For the next season of ...

"It was the night of 24 December 1223, a date that marked the birth of the ... he added. "Nativity scenes should draw our hearts and minds to the Holy Land, where Jesus Christ was born, and ...

They believe that erecting Nativity scenes on public property is a good way to help keep the birth of Jesus at the center of a Christmas season that they say has become far too commercialized.

STEVENSVILLE, Mont. — Every Christmas season, Christians honor the birth of Jesus by putting up Nativity scenes. The Gospels record the first visitors to the stable as humble shepherds.

it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with the baby Jesus and his family, shepherds, the three wise men believed to have visited Jesus after his birth and several ...

For the third year in a row, Heidi Pelligra will transform part of her property into a Bethlehemian barn just like the one Jesus Christ ... the barn for a live Nativity scene.’ ...

“Dressing baby Jesus in a keffiyeh is not only a cynical exploitation of the manger scene ... the [nativity] story as it is written in the Bible — the story of a Jewish girl giving birth ...

The Nativity scene featuring a keffiyeh that was unveiled ... (image public domain via the National Gallery of Art) The location of Jesus’s birth and the people present became deeply meaningful ...

The Vatican has removed a nativity scene sculpture of baby ... on Christmas Eve night to mark the moment of Jesus’s birth. The manger scene had only been installed in full for the purposes ...

There are 14 different scenes in total from the story of the birth of Jesus that Santa Monica Nativity Scenes (SMNS) traditionally display: the Annunciation, Joseph’s Dream, the Visitation ...

Netflix’s new feature Mary - a biblical epic about the mother of Jesus ... on the nativity story in The Passion of the Christ, Warren pointed to one 'especially problematic scene' that ...