Every year, Patin displays the nativity in his living room and invites friends and collectors to take a look. And every year, as figures are purchased, the more crowded the scene gets. But that ...

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 ...

In Israel’s South, tiny figurines including heads of African figures carved into black wood were uncovered in 1,500-year-old burial sites of women and children at an archaeological site in the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious ... according to the US State Department figures, citing Israel’s Central ...

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 ...

Such was the case with our Nativity set on the church lawn this ... I found that the 48-inch figures, when placed on our huge hillside, look a bit more like hobbits than Mary and Joseph and ...

A nativity scene at the Vatican depicting baby Jesus wrapped ... The scene featured a carved olive wood depiction of the Holy Family and a Bethlehem Star inscribed in Latin and Arabic with the message ...

Some evidence shows that the use of olive wood in Bethlehem dates back to the fourth century during the construction of the Basilica of the Nativity, Adonia said. And Franciscan monks introduced ...

Such was the case with our Nativity set on the church lawn this year. Our custodian/decorators did such a breathtaking job with the decorations on the inside of the church that I figured some new ...

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 touring miniature figures – which ...