My family’s Nativity scene, like so many others that will appear during the holiday season, has some notable inaccuracies. It portrays a fair-skinned holy family, not a Middle Eastern one.

Video, 00:00:36 Bethlehem nativity scene shown with rubble and wire. Subsection. Middle East. Published. 23 December 2023. 0:36. Up Next. Christmas celebrations to go ahead in Bethlehem.

The Nativity Scene will be kept up in its entirety through Epiphany, which falls on Jan. 6. “For human beings, tradition means a lot,” Kenney said.

Rosemary Quantick invented the Lobster Nativity Scene, according to the product website. Quantick explained that she was born in England, coming to America on the Queen Mary when she was young.

In a controversial take on the classic nativity scene, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s traditional blanket with a keffiyeh — a symbol of pro-Palestine activism.

The scene in St. Peter’s Square depicts not only Mary and Joseph standing beside the manger, but also St. Francis of Assisi, who organized the first Nativity scene in a cave in the Italian ...

Nativity sets, a familiar part of holiday decor, are becoming simpler and more abstract with some scenes made out of sleek glass or labeled wooden blocks. While they’re unusual, they also spark ...

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 ...

The classic nativity scene many of us have in our head might look vastly different depending on where you grew up, while the players might change, the story is still the same — a virgin — Mary ...

Rome Newsroom, Dec 27, 2022 / 10:00 am. The first known Nativity scene figurines are currently on display in one of Rome’s oldest basilicas.