The keffiyeh was visible during the presentation of the Bethlehem Nativity to Pope Francis in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on ...

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

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

Kingsport’s Church Circle presented its annual Nativity scene on Sunday. Come to Bethlehem: A Living Nativity Scene featured ...

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

St. Francis was inspired, it is believed, by his pilgrimage to the Holy Land to depict the scene of Christ’s birth in a literal way. As his first biographer, Brother Thomas of Celano, explains it, St.

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.

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

The keffiyeh controversy deepened after Israel’s Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, wrote a strongly-worded ...

After the display raised a few eyebrows, the Vatican appears to have removed a Nativity scene that showed baby Jesus lying on ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — On Christmas Eve in 1741, Moravian settlers named this Pennsylvania city after the biblical birthplace ...