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

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...

(photo: Vatican Media / VM) Hannah Brockhaus/CNA World December 13, 2024 A Nativity scene made by artisans from Bethlehem was the source of controversy this week for including a Palestinian ...

The Vatican's nativity scene reopens to the public, but without the controversial Palestinian symbol.

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

A stature of the Baby Jesus has returned to the Vatican's 'presepe', or Nativity Scene, in the Saint Paul VI Hall, but not ...

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

The U.S. gained its 26th UNESCO World Heritage Site this summer. The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Moravian settlement joined ...

The traditional Christian procession arrived in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ as described in the Bible, in the ...

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

In 2024, Pope Francis presented a Nativity scene displayed at the Vatican that featured baby Jesus wrapped in a kaffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian scarf. Rating: True (About this rating?) On Dec. 7, ...

Bethlehem Village came to life in Afton as hundreds gathered in the cold to witness the recreation of the birth of baby Jesus. Created by Hebron Baptist Church, the live Nativity, which includes ...