Thanks to the stars aligning, I happened to answer the newsroom phone when Gwen Parfait called. She told me about the Native American nativity scene her husband Wilton Parfait built for their front ...

This small village has a rich religious history, being credited with starting the tradition of live Nativity scenes. Located in the Lazio region of Italy, the town of Greccio is where Saint Francis of ...

GALICIA, Spain — A babbling creek and robotic sheep are modern touches in the Christmas Nativity scene displayed in the San Vicente de La Baña church built in the 1700s. But the purpose of the annual ...

"Flemish Nativity" is based on a 16th century painting "The Census in Bethlehem" by the Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel, famous for filling his compositions with crowds of people and activity. (Emma Lee ...

PLAINVIEW – Christmas has arrived early at Wayland Baptist University’s Mabee Regional Heritage Center, where an all-new collection of Carolyn Cunningham’s international Nativity scenes is on display.

When you enter the sanctuary at Campus Lutheran Church on College Avenue, you are greeted by tables lining the sides of pews with seasonal tablecloths and an endless array of Christmas nativity scenes ...

The Christmas season marks the return of twinkling lights, festive gatherings, gifts, cards, and holiday music. For decades of American history, nativity scenes depicting the birth of Jesus Christ ...

From ancient mosaics to Saint Francis of Assisi, depictions of Jesus’s birth reflect the changing conventions of the world’s largest religion Kathleen Brady A tableau of sculptures or living beings, ...

To criticize the Vatican’s nativity with a now-removed Jesus in a keffiyeh would be to dismiss the artistic history of crèches centering marginalized people. Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on ...

Pope Francis marked his 87th birthday on Sunday with a party and cake for children before he kept his weekly appointment for the Sunday Angelus. The children got special attention there too, as many ...

The exposition “100 Nativity Scenes in the Vatican” opened on Sunday, Dec. 7, 2021, under Bernini’s Colonnade in St. Peter’s Square, in Rome. (Credit: Inés San Martín.) Listen ROME – All materials are ...