The figure of the baby Jesus will be returned to the manger on December 24 but the keffiyeh may not be. Jesus Christ displayed on a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf gifted by the Palestinian Higher ...

Pope Francis marked his 87th birthday on Sunday with a party and cake for children before he kept his weekly appointment for the Sunday Angelus. The children got special attention there too, as many ...

The Nativity scene featuring a keffiyeh that was unveiled at the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on December 7 was designed by Palestinian artists Johny Andonia and Faten Nastas Mitwasi of Bethlehem. (© ...

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Around the Christmas season, it is common to see a display of the Nativity scene: a small manger with the baby Jesus and his ...

If the concept of kenosis — a self-emptying of one’s own will in favor of complete conformity to the will of God — is best applied to Jesus’ Passion, another term can be applied to the Nativity: ...

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 ...

Composite image by author. Photos from Unsplash. “Mommmm! I can’t find Baby Jesus!” Away in a manger, no crib for his bed, a tiny wooden baby is swaddled in bubble wrap. The figure has no facial ...

ADAIR, Okla. (KFOR) — After the Cross itself, the Nativity might represent the most recognizable symbol in Christendom. The mind easily conjures the little shelter, a baby in the manger, Mother Mary, ...