Posted: January 6, 2025 | Last updated: January 7, 2025 This is the second year of the presepio at the Church of the Good Shepherd which is a popular nativity display in Rome and Italian churches.

“Bethlehem is the capital of Christmas. It’s supposed to be the best time of the year. None of that is happening because we’re mourning,” one pastor in the city told NBC News.

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.

A Nativity scene is illuminated by a Christmas tree on Payrow Plaza in Bethlehem, Pa., known as “Christmas City, USA,” on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Luis Andres Henao) AP ...

UPDATED: December 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM CST On quiet nights during the Christmas season, Ed O’Malley enjoys visiting the Nativity scene he helps set up every year in an Arlington Heights park.

In the early 13th century, it was St Francis of Assisi — an Italian mystic, poet, and Catholic friar, who came up with the idea of a live depiction of the nativity scene. There were, however ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Watch this report for more details! New Orleans attack suspect acted alone, supported Islamic State, FBI ...

Nativity Scenes Have Never Been Neutral 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.

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus ...

Pope Francis unveiled the nativity scene in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall. The nativity scene was created by Palestinian artists from Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem. The baby Jesus’s cradle is ...

Black Theatre Troupe's 39th annual production of Langston Hughes' "Black Nativity" opens on Friday, Dec. 6. Written by the poet and playwright in 1961, it visually and musically subverted American ...