Illustrator Ugo Bienvenu's debut feature, about a boy from the future trying to find his way home, took the Cristal for best feature film at the 2025 Annecy international film festival.

Here are a few local Nativity scenes you can enjoy ... By the 16th century many churches throughout Italy and Germany presented a Nativity scene of this type at Christmas time. Some French ...

Most French Christmas markets (Marchés de Noël) operate from late November till the end of December. They offer lots of regional culinary specialties, festive de. ... Advent choirs sing Christmas ...

Christmas in France would not be complete without free-flowing champagne, oysters or a bûche de Noël. And the French holiday season is longer than most – stretching into the New Year with ...

Swastikas adorned the “people’s Christmas trees” and electric light displays set up across Germany. In larger cities, the Nazi obsession with public decoration reached spectacular proportions. In ...

Three days later, I drove to Marrero. Their home was easy to spot. It was the one with the teepee and the Native American nativity scene in front. As I began to admire Wilton Parfait's handiwork ...

The popularization of Nativity plays in Britain is largely credited to Laurence Housman (1865–1959). Housman wrote "Bethlehem," a Nativity play adapted from a 14th century Coventry mystery play. Set ...

The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has blessed the Nativity scene at the historic French landmark church ahead of the first Christmas celebrations since its restoration after a ...

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service • Posted December 16, 2024 . ROME (CNS) — Making his customary visit to the Rome Basilica of St. Mary Major to pray before his trip to the French island ...

Christmas brings us the tenderness of a baby.” Gazing at a Nativity scene, he said, the newborn baby Jesus “gives us hope,” and the image of Mary is a reminder that people can count on “the care of a ...

Christmas brings us the tenderness of a baby." Gazing at a Nativity scene, he said, the newborn baby Jesus "gives us hope," and the image of Mary is a reminder that people can count on "the care of a ...