The names of the main figures in the nativity scene are displayed on wooden posts in the design nativity scene on the pier in ...

Greccio, Italy, reenacts a living Nativity scene paying homage to Saint Francis of Assisi, who is credited with starting the ...

Bethlehem, the West Bank city where Jesus Christ was born, was uncharacteristically silent on Christmas Day. Gone was the ...

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity scene in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. It depicted Jesus' birth ...

Later during the Christmas season, you might want to watch the 1949 film Come to the Stable that tells the story of Regina ...

On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace of Jesus. Nearly 300 ...

Johny Andonia, a 39-year-old artist from Bethlehem who led the project, said it is just a symbol to represent or show the ...

Ideas flourished over dinners with friends. In this Bethlehem, what started as a cold tent the first year grew into a heated ...

Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in ...

The Nativity story continued to expand within Christian devotional culture well after Francis’ death. In 1291, Pope Nicholas ...

Credit: Marinella Bandini The artisans in Bethlehem are almost all Christians. They primarily work with olive wood. The logs ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian keffiyeh with the child Jesus in the manger — but according to the project ...