The original cast of The Office then and now: where are they 25 years later?

Ricky Gervais's Office is celebrating its 25-year anniversary - where are the cast now? From highly successful TV shows to ...
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Mary: Cast, Release Date, Photos, Plot of Biblical Nativity Epic

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Record-Courier

Nativity scenes should honor Christ's birth, beliefs | Voices of Faith

One Christmas, my grandmother gifted each of the grandchildren with a creche. Figurines of Mary, Joseph and Jesus, along with a number of creatures (a donkey, a pair of camels and three sheep) all ...
The New York Times

Wise Man? King? In Naples, Trump Joins Jesus in Nativity Displays.

For generations, Italian craftspeople have built scenes depicting Jesus’ birth, sometimes including figures of celebrities. This year, some are adding statuettes of President Trump. Figurines of ...
Hyperallergic

The Egalitarian Vision of Nativity Scenes

Sandro Botticelli, "The Mystical Nativity" (1500), oil on canvas, held at the National Gallery, London (photo via Wikimedia Commons) The Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola had been martyred less than ...
Fox News

‘It’s about the birth of Jesus’: South Carolina town committee defies mayor, keeps Nativity scene up

A small South Carolina town committee refused to remove a Nativity scene from a market parking lot after the mayor ordered it taken down from public property. Around Thanksgiving, Kimberly Byrd, head ...
PBS

Black Nouveau celebrates the season with music from the Black Arts MKE cast of "Black Nativity."

Black Nouveau celebrates the season with music from the Black Arts MKE cast of "Black Nativity." The episode explores a visit to the 20th Annual Fatherhood Summit and a conversation with Marcus Center ...
The Christian Century

All nativity scenes are political

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, ...
Forbes

DHS Tells Churches To 'Get A Grip' As Nativity Scenes Used To Protest ICE

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 ...
Chicago Tribune

Nativity smashed, Mary figure ‘beaten’ at Evanston church: ‘God’s on the side of the vulnerable’

Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded, according to an associate minister, by replacing it with a sign ...
CNN

As anti-ICE Nativity scenes spark outrage, faith leaders grapple with politics at the pulpit

In the week since a Nativity scene was installed outside of the Missiongathering Church here in Charlotte, Pastor Andrew Shipley said he’s often found himself doing a double take. Not to reflect on ...
NPR

Church Nativity scenes add zip ties and gas masks to protest immigration raids

DEDHAM, Mass. — One baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, ...