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 ...

One of the most compelling realities surrounding the Nativity narrative is Jesus’ birth was foretold long before the manger, with the Old Testament, including important prophecies pointing ...

A small camel dreams of adventure and learns the true meaning of reverence on a journey to Bethlehem to see baby Jesus in ...

The nativity scene is also suggestive of the trope that Jesus was a Palestinian, which drew anger from Israeli officials in 2013, when invoked by Mahmoud Abbas. It's not (only) about you.

The nativity is the representation of Jesus being born in Bethlehem, a city located in the West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank ...

Jesus Christ displayed on a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf gifted by the Palestinian Higher Committee of Churches Affairs, as part of the "Nativity of Bethlehem 2024" during its inauguration in the ...

Following a tradition of the past five decades, a Nativity scene featuring life-size figurines of baby Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the three wise men will be on display outside the Franklin County ...

Echoing criticisms of Mel Gibson's take on the nativity story in The Passion of ... It] foreshadows the Jewish crowd calling for Jesus’s execution... and the antisemitic charge of deicide ...

The Nativity of Bethlehem 2024, located in Paul VI hall, featured the baby Jesus wrapped in a kaffiyeh, a scarf traditional to the Palestinian people. In his address, the pope called for peace in ...

For the third year in a row, Heidi Pelligra will transform part of her property into a Bethlehemian barn just like the one Jesus Christ ... use the barn for a live Nativity scene.’ ...

"Nativity scenes should draw our hearts and minds to the Holy Land, where Jesus Christ was born, and inspire our prayers for peace," said Briscoe.