“I made a dumb mistake in the moment," the thief said in their apology note A baby Jesus figurine was returned to a Colorado nativity scene where it was stolen from just days before Christmas ...

The installation -- which shows Joseph, Mary and baby Jesus in front of a bullet-scarred concrete wall -- is on display at the artist's hotel in Bethlehem. A church in Southern California is ...

(RNS) — In Advent of last year, a Nativity scene at the Vatican briefly showed the baby Jesus wrapped in a keffiyeh, along with the spurious declaration that “Jesus was Palestinian.” ...

Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on.

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The nativity story follows Mary and Joseph from being told they will have a baby by the angel Gabriel, through to the birth of Jesus and the visits from the shepherds and wise men. The story of ...

Known as “the Blessing of the Bambinelli” (Italian for “baby dolls”), it calls for children to remove the baby Jesus figure from a nativity scene at home and bring it ...