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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

OXFORD, NY (WBNG) -- For the third year, the Vincent family hosted a live nativity scene at its family home in Oxford.

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 ...

During the Christmas season when I was a boy, my mother used to take my brothers and sisters and me down to one of the roughest neighborhoods in San Francisco to visit some animals that were gathered ...

Every Christmas season, Christians honor the birth of Jesus by putting up Nativity scenes.The Gospels record the first ...

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

Faith leaders and residents in Bethlehem are grappling with how to mark the festive holiday while fellow Palestinians ...