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 ...

Greccio, Italy, reenacts a living Nativity scene paying homage to Saint Francis of Assisi, who is credited with starting the ...

Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on ...

(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 ...

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

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

Doug Bean (in character as a merchant) walks through an interactive Bethlehem market scene at an immersive nativity scene on the Bean farm near Scotch Grove on Dec. 8, 2024. (Nick Rohlman/The ...

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, ...