A church in Claremont featured a Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus in cages. It was supposed to make a point about the plight of asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has invited Americans to participate in a daily prayer to St. Joseph, defender of ...

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, the Holy Family. Shortly after the birth of Jesus, Joseph and Mary were forced to flee with their young son from Nazareth to Egypt to escape King Herod, a tyrant.

St. Joseph, as an observant Jew, would have been keenly aware of God’s action in his family’s life and thus made himself, like Mary, “the servant of the Lord” (cf. Luke 1:38).

By Caitlin O'Kane July 3, 2018 / 12:26 PM EDT / CBS News A congregation in Indiana has placed Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus statues inside a cage on a church's front lawn.

Statues of Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus are shown in a cage of chain-link fencing on the lawn of Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis on July 3. The statues were placed there to ...

Every year we set up a traditional manger scene near our Christmas tree. There are Mary and Joseph, a shepherd and a few sheep, three wise men and at least one camel, and the baby Jesus. For years ...

FILE - Aimee Mandujano, left, as Mary, and Peter Vargas, as Joseph, ride atop a wheeled burro during La Gran Posada procession from Milam Park to San Fernando Cathedral, Sunday, Dec. 20, 2015, in ...

Jesus, Mary and Joseph were reunited in a separate scene inside the church. Ristine said the church has largely received support for the display but many online expressed their displeasure ...

I write about this question in my book, “Jesus, Mary, and Joseph: Family Trouble in the Infancy Gospels.” The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a key source for my book, describes the childhood of Jesus.

A California church is displaying a nativity scene depicting Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees in cages to draw attention to the conditions faced by migrants seeking asylum in the United States.

ABC 7 The church's senior minister, Karen Clark Ristine, wrote a Facebook post about the nativity scene, calling Joseph, Mary, and Jesus "the most well-known refugee family in the world." ...