Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s ...

I go to the storage room and begin to pull boxes out to get things ready for decorating for Christmas. I begin to move furniture around to get things in place. One of the first things to be put up is ...

YOUR HELP IN FINDING WHO DID IT. EVERY CHRISTMAS SEASON, THE NATIVITY TAKES ITS SPOT IN THE CENTER OF RED LION, COMPLETE WITH MARY, JOSEPH AND THE WISE MEN. BUT RIGHT NOW, THERE’S SOMEONE IMPORTANT ...

(RNS) — The pro-Palestinian creche is intended to point out the disconnect between the idealized Bethlehem of most representations and the reality in present-day Gaza and the West Bank. (RNS) — The ...

Hundreds of plaster Baby Jesus figurines are scattered around scores of stalls in the Niños Dios market of Mexico's capital, where many of the city's Catholic faithful go early each year for help in ...

A church's nativity show went hilariously wrong when a 2-year-old playing a sheep yanked the Christ child out of his manger and was put in a headlock by the Virgin Mary. The Tennessee congregants at ...

Mary points to Jesus — noticeably so, as we celebrate the patroness of the Americas, Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Advent. This classic story, released again for a new generation of readers, retells the ...