Each holiday season, as peppermint mochas return to coffee shop menus and mall Santas take their posts, a familiar kind of religious freedom conflict appears in the news: disputes over nativity scenes ...
For generations, Italian craftspeople have built scenes depicting Jesus’ birth, sometimes including figures of celebrities. This year, some are adding statuettes of President Trump. Figurines of ...
Sandro Botticelli, "The Mystical Nativity" (1500), oil on canvas, held at the National Gallery, London (photo via Wikimedia Commons) The Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola had been martyred less than ...
‘It’s about the birth of Jesus’: South Carolina town committee defies mayor, keeps Nativity scene up
A small South Carolina town committee refused to remove a Nativity scene from a market parking lot after the mayor ordered it taken down from public property. Around Thanksgiving, Kimberly Byrd, head ...
When he was a child, Luke Hartman, 17, vividly remembers a delicate glass plate with an engraving of a Nativity scene. It’s a favorite of his from a collection kept by his grandmother, who died when ...
The beloved 123-piece Christmas Nativity display at Centennial Park drew millions of visitors from around the world before closing in the 1960s, but its magic lives on in a new book NASHVILLE, Tenn.
A nativity scene designed and crafted in Nocera Inferiore and Sarno in southern Italy, is lit up in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, Dec.15, 2025. (Credit: Alessandra Tarantino) In early ...
SAN ANTONIO — Across the country this Christmas, nativity scenes are being reimagined—not just as symbols of faith, but as reflections on immigration, fear and family separation. From Illinois to ...
Learn how to build a beautiful DIY nativity scene stable using a Kreg pocket hole jig. This step-by-step guide shows how to assemble a sturdy and festive wooden stable, perfect for holiday decorations ...
Making your own Christmas wreath seems like a simple way to add some personalised festive charm to your home. With just a few materials and a little creativity you can create a Christmas decoration ...
Chicago — Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded, according to an associate minister, by replacing it with a ...
ROME — The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 82-foot Christmas tree that towers above it in St. Peter’s Square as a band, chorus and dancers in traditional costumes from Italy’s ...
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