Louis Michel, the Catholic owner of St. Patrick Store, another Bethlehem shop that sells Christian merchandise, from locally made olive-wood nativity scenes and gold crosses to votive candles and ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927.

They primarily work with olive wood. The logs stacked in their storage spaces, shaped by their hands and in their workshops, are transformed into crosses, Nativity scenes, Nativity figures, and ...

Pastor Bo: Some surprising new figures to add to the Nativity set. December 14, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. by Pastor Bo Wagner ...

A nativity scene at the Vatican depicting baby Jesus wrapped in a Palestinian keffiyeh has been removed after sparking backlash.. Pope Francis unveiled the display last Saturday as part of the annual ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian keffiyeh with the child Jesus in the manger — but according to the project ...

As I mulled the Christmas Scriptures over in my differently wired brain, I eventually came to the conclusion that an additional character or two may be warranted in the Nativity ...

Knitted Nativity figures are offering commuters “signs of the Christmas story” this month as they tour some of the London rail network’s most holy stations. The touring miniature figures ...

Knitted Nativity figures are offering commuters “signs of the Christmas story” this month as they tour some of the London rail network’s most holy stations.

The Vatican’s nativity scene contains figures carved from olive wood and a mother-of-pearl Star of Bethlehem that were created by Palestinian artists and craftspeople.

From the city of the Prince of Peace came a gift of a nativity scene made by artisans. The figures were made of olive wood, the large Star of mother-of-pearl, and other elements with various ...