Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s ...

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Belgian police are investigating the theft of an infant Jesus figure from a Nativity scene in a Brussels Christmas market. The icon had already been at the center of a brewing national scandal, one ...

(TNND) — A church’s Nativity display is drawing heated backlash after unveiling a Baby Jesus figure with His wrists bound together by zip ties. His mother, Mary, is wearing a plastic gas mask and ...

The scene in the Belgian capital of Brussels, titled 'Fabrics of the Nativity', was crafted by local artist Victoria-Maria Geyer and was commissioned through the Cathedrals of St Michael and St Gudula ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A progressive Baptist church in Evanston, Ill., has received national recognition after using its annual Christmas ...

One of the oldest depictions of Jesus Christ lying in a manger is on view at the Byzantine Museum in Athens. (Image via Wikimedia Commons) With Christmas upon us, many observers of the Christian ...

TEXARKANA, Texas – The First Assembly of God - Lighthouse Ministries in Texarkana hosted a drive-through live nativity for visitors over the weekend, with cars lined up on 7th St. to see the ...

Pilgrims hold up statues of the infant Jesus to be blessed during Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Angelus address in St. Peter’s Square Dec. 21, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Pope Leo XIV Sunday ...

Pope Francis marked his 87th birthday on Sunday with a party and cake for children before he kept his weekly appointment for the Sunday Angelus. The children got special attention there too, as many ...