New research has overturned conventional wisdom about the provenance of artist’s famed painting Adoration of the Shepherds ...

This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann. The incident happened on Jan. 6. "There is not a monetary hook to ...

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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The nativity scene inside the National Shrine ... for the person who stole the statuette of the baby Jesus from the display inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann.

Originally rooted in three centers (Naples; the Provence, France; and Southern Germany and Austria), nativity sets have spread all over ... seems to have rediscovered this form of popular religious ...

Q: Where do the many Nativity motifs--Cave, Ox and Ass ... The motif of the bath is quite well known in paintings of Jesus' birth, and it conveys the conviction that he is truly human. Where does it ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - A Baby Jesus figurine stolen from a nativity scene displayed in a town square was anonymously returned with an apology note. Fort Collins police said that ...

DENVER (AP) — A baby Jesus figurine snatched from a nativity scene in Colorado has been returned in time for Christmas, with an apology. The statuette of Jesus lying in a manger, stolen from a public ...

The live Nativity is a lot of work, but it’s a joy to be part of something that shows practically what the birth of Jesus means to Christians, said Valerie McElroy, who was registering visitors ...

Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on. The symbolically charged nativity ...