VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its ...

The Nativity scene in front of Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Norwalk is one of the great holiday traditions in ...

Although the nativity that we popularly see today is attributed to St Francis, the idea is much older. As early as the 4th century CE, religious art depicted the scene at the manger, but these ...

NORWALK, Ohio (WJW) — Five days after a statue of baby Jesus was reported stolen from a local church’s Nativity scene, the city’s police chief tells the FOX 8 I-Team that the Jesus statue has been ...

A mock synagogue at a Christmas festival in an Italian mountain village offered a surprising opportunity for Jewish outreach ...

Around the Christmas season, it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with the baby Jesus and his family, shepherds, the three wise men believed to have visited Jesus ...

The nativity scene bill—which would place the commonly recognized scene of Mary, St. Joseph and Jesus at the manger on Christmas on Capitol grounds in December—was filed in the Texas House as ...

This small village has a rich religious history, being credited with starting the tradition of live Nativity scenes ... asking for a manger to be built with an ox and a donkey, according to ...

The 266th head of the Catholic Church called for peace in the Middle East—a routine request from his predecessors. But Pope ...

The Nativity scene, also called a creche ... Police said they had been pried from the plywood floor of the manger scene. The short answer is yes. The longer answer lies in a 1984 Supreme Court ...

The Feast of Epiphany brings to mind the magi present in the nativity tale. These unlikely figures provide a growing ...

At that Christmas in Greccio, when St. Francis set up the manger scene in church for the first ... May God grant us this grace. Keywords: nativity of jesus celebrating christmas Archbishop ...