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After a week’s delay due to icy weather, First United Methodist Church’s drive-by Nativity scene came to life Sunday evening, Dec. 22. This was the second straight year First United Methodist has ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican had hinted the controversial keffiyeh would be put back in the Nativity scene on Christmas Eve. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish ...

The classic nativity scene many of us have in our head might look vastly different depending on where you grew up, while the players might change, the story is still the same — a virgin — Mary ...

Two Houston-area lawmakers have filed bills that would require the placement of a nativity scene on the Texas Capitol grounds during the month of December. The move comes as several Republican ...

VATICAN CITY: “The enchanting image of the Christmas crèche, so dear to the Christian people, never ceases to arouse amazement and wonder”, says Pope Francis in his Apostolic Letter “Admirabile Signum ...

God of every nation and people, from the very beginning of creation you have made known your love: when our need for a Savior was great you sent your Son to be born of the Virgin Mary. To our ...

This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann. The incident happened on Jan. 6. "There is not a monetary hook to ...

One of the things we put up as part of our Christmas decorations is a Nativity scene that we sewed together a couple of years ago. It has all the normal characters including the wise men (which we put ...