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 ...

the Vatican's Nativity scene had a newborn Jesus resting in a manger while wrapped in a keffiyeh—considered a symbol of pro-Palestinian activism. The scene, carved in wood from olive trees ...

The classic nativity ... on the scene, handmade Fetish Bears from New Mexico, and scrap metal twisted into Mary’s likeness, were a sharp contrast to classically carved motifs out of olive ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now been placed in the nativity scene without the kefiah. In the Paul VI Hall ...

the nativity scene prominently features Palestinian materials, including olive wood, a symbol of Palestinian resilience. During its unveiling, Pope Francis condemned the global arms industry for ...

Pope Francis unveiled this year's Nativity scene at the Vatican this week. The scene was crafted by Palestinian artists from Bethlehem and features Mary, Joseph and Jesus carved out of olive wood, a ...

The Nativity scene in the square came from the island ... people from Bethlehem and Palestinian authorities. It featured olive-wood statues of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus, who was lying ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was ... which he said have deep roots in the area, especially olive wood and mother-of-pearl. The round, almost 10-foot-high installation ...

Some evidence shows that the use of olive wood in Bethlehem dates back to ... “I’ve lived my life looking at people creating Nativity scenes, and they are proud of it, so it also meant ...

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

The figure of the baby Jesus will be returned to the manger on December 24 but the keffiyeh may not be. Jesus Christ displayed on a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf gifted by the Palestinian Higher ...

The Nativity scene unveiled on Saturday ... Carving statues and religious scenes from olive wood has been a pillar of the Holy Land’s economic and cultural identity for centuries.