Surrounding the river are the props of the modern-day nativity scene: coiling razor wire, 30-foot walls, Texas Army National Guard troops and their armored jeeps, armed U.S. Border Patrol agents ...

The first Nativity play According to tradition, St Francis invited the locals to a nearby cave, where he delivered a Christmas sermon in front of a manger, complete with a real baby, a donkey, and ...

In a controversial take on the classic nativity scene, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s traditional blanket with a keffiyeh — a symbol of pro-Palestine activism.

We all know the image. Baby Jesus in the manger. Around him, shepherds, animals, angels and three wise men: Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar. Two of them are white, one of them Black. Above them ...

A modern Nativity at the Festival of Nativities depicting Mary and Joseph taking a selfie with the newborn Jesus as the three Wiseman bear Amazon gift packages on Segways. The festival is at ...

Christmas is year-round in Greccio, a small cliffside village in Lazio. The reason? This is where St Francis of Assisi created the first-ever nativity scene in a cave in 1223.

Nativity sets, a familiar part of holiday decor, are becoming simpler and more abstract with some scenes made out of sleek glass or labeled wooden blocks. While they’re unusual, they also spark ...

The Nativity scene created by Claude Picard in 1972 represented Madawaska County at that time and reimagined what the birth of Jesus would have been like had it happened in modern times. (Mike ...