One of the oldest depictions of Jesus Christ lying in a manger is on view at the Byzantine Museum in Athens. (Image via Wikimedia Commons) With Christmas upon us, many observers of the Christian ...

In a manger in front of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, the baby Jesus’ hands are bound with plastic zip ties. Roman centurions in sunglasses and camo jackets stand menacingly over him, ...

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 village of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Victoria-Maria Geyer's Christmas nativity scene with faceless characters being unveiled at the Grand-Place in Brussels on November 28 (photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP via Getty Images) If you need any ...

Some U.S. churches are reimagining Nativity scenes — surrounding the Holy Family with ICE agents or separating Jesus from Mary and Joseph — to protest the Trump administration's intensifying ...

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday told the clergy leaders whose churches have used Christmas Nativity scenes to protest immigration enforcement to “get a grip and seek ...

A religious liberty group is challenging a Connecticut policy that barred it from displaying a Nativity scene in the state ...