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’s ...

A Mexican church's new statue has been submitted to Guinness World Records to be confirmed as the largest baby Jesus statue in the world Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE.

Pips the church cat is known for appearing in unusual places, including on top of the church organ There’s a new “Messiah” in Ilkeston, England, and she’s been known to jump on top of coffins, bravely ...

(RNS) — The pro-Palestinian creche is intended to point out the disconnect between the idealized Bethlehem of most representations and the reality in present-day Gaza and the West Bank. (RNS) — The ...

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A baby Jesus was found at a fire station in Fort Collins, Colorado, after going missing from the town's Nativity scene. Four days after he was stolen from the tableau in the town, the baby Jesus ...

The kaffiyeh — the Bedouin head scarf that has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance — is not only the latest sartorial fad among hipster fashionistas, but is now being used to swaddle baby Jesus ...

This children’s Christmas book paints baby Jesus in a new (or rather ancient) light. In 2010 I visited the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth and was struck by how different ethnic groups ...