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 ...
The Nativity story continued to expand within Christian devotional culture well after Francis’ death. In 1291, Pope Nicholas ...
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 ...
Moravian missionaries named the Pennsylvania city of Bethlehem after the biblical birthplace of Jesus on Christmas Eve in ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West ...
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.
Ideas flourished over dinners with friends. In this Bethlehem, what started as a cold tent the first year grew into a heated ...
After the display raised a few eyebrows, the Vatican appears to have removed a Nativity scene that showed baby Jesus lying on ...
Pope Francis publicly showed off the Vatican's 2024 Christmas decorations: a Nativity scene and Christmas tree in St. Peter's ...