The Nativity scene was crafted by artists from Bethlehem using local materials ... officials had placed the keffiyeh, a black and white checkered scarf that has come to symbolize the Palestinian ...

Every Christmas season, Christians honor the birth of Jesus by putting up Nativity scenes. The Gospels record ... ones to learn that the Savior is in Bethlehem. They were guided by the star ...

The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main audience hall had generated headlines when it was unveiled December 7 because of the presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy ... Amid the Israel-Hamas war, the black-and-white checkered keffiyeh has become a symbol for the Palestinian cause.

The keffiyeh was visible during the presentation of the Bethlehem Nativity to ... removed from the scene without explanation. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, the black-and-white checkered keffiyeh ...

A view of Nativity Scene is in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Dec. 7. Crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem ... the black-and-white checkered headscarf that has become a potent ...

The star hanging above the nativity is shaped from mother of pearl using a style of ornamentation dating back to the 15th century in Bethlehem. The sheep surrounding the scene were made by ...

Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on ...

Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience on Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that was missing its eyebrow-raising signature element: a keffiyeh-draped manger ...

The addition of the traditional black-and-white checkered ... The Vatican’s nativity scene contains figures carved from olive wood and a mother-of-pearl Star of Bethlehem that were created ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem ... the black-and-white checkered headscarf that has become a potent symbol of the Palestinian cause.