In an acknowledgment that Jesus, Mary and Joseph were refugees themselves, in recent years, some churches have used their Nativity scenes as a form of political activism to comment on the need for ...

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Joseph, Mary and farm animals. The scene also includes the three wise men and a shepherd. Locally and nationally, government displays of the Nativity scene have drawn controversy, as secularists ...

The Nativity scene, also called a creche, has a colorful history. Over the years, thieves and vandals have frequently targeted the tableau, absconding with the fiberglass infant Jesus, Joseph, Mary ...

In 1968, a group of American artists led by Joey Skaggs constructed a Vietnamese Nativity scene in Central Park, with a Vietnamese Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in a manger covered with bamboo ...

A bakery in England has decided to pay homage to the Christmas holiday and to the meaning of Christmas by recreating the Nativity scene ... the characters of Mary, Joseph, the shepherd and the ...

Since 1962, a sweeping life-sized Nativity Scene — depicting numerous figures, but focused on the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and, beginning on Christmas Eve, the infant Jesus — has been one ...

The scene in St. Peter’s Square depicts not only Mary and Joseph standing beside the manger but also St. Francis of Assisi, who organized the first Nativity scene in a cave in the Italian ...

In addition to the figures of Mary, Joseph, St. Francis and the traditional ox and donkey, the 13th-century mayor of Greccio who helped organize the first Nativity scene, Giovanni Velita, is ...

This year, Mary and Joseph, the parents of Jesus, are portrayed as black people in a devastated Amazon region. The angels are illustrated using indigenous figures. A view of a futuristic Nativity ...

watched over by Mary, Joseph and a few reclining animals. Shepherds arrive, and three Magi, or wise men, approach. A tableau of sculptures or living beings, the Nativity scene (as well as the ...