On quiet nights during the Christmas season, Ed O’Malley enjoys visiting the Nativity scene he helps set up every year in an Arlington Heights park. He’ll check whether the wind has blown over a ...

FALL RIVER – Portugalia Marketplace is once again decked out for the arrival of Christmas, featuring an Azorean presépio (nativity scene) and village that is even bigger and has more moving parts than ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A nativity scene on public property is again stirring anger in an eastern Iowa town. This time, that anger is directed mostly at an out-of-town atheist group who are asking ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The Vatican had hinted the controversial keffiyeh would be put back in the Nativity scene on Christmas Eve. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the ...

If you have lived, worked or spent any length of time in Columbus during the past 61 years, you are bound to have seen it: Each Christmas season, shepherds, sheep, kings and a small family have graced ...

A Nativity set, or crèche, is a three-dimensional representation of the birth of Jesus Christ. Some elements of a Nativity set are included because they are mentioned in the Bible. Other figures or ...

The classic nativity scene many of us have in our head might look vastly different depending on where you grew up, while the players might change, the story is still the same — a virgin — Mary — gives ...