"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 ...

On Christmas Eve, Ukrainian families create a living Nativity scene by spreading straw across the floor and placing hay beneath the dinner tablecloth. “This gesture connects the birth of Jesus ...

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.

One of the most compelling realities surrounding the nativity narrative is Jesus’s birth was foretold long before the manger, with the Old Testament including important prophecies pointing ...

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.’ ...

The Westside Baptist Church has brought Bethlehem to Jacksonville once again with its living drive-thru nativity scene ... live animals to recreate the birth of Jesus Christ.

“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 ...

The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main audience ... when Catholics celebrate the birth of Jesus, often the mangers remain in the scenes empty until that date. The Christ figure had ...