This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann. The incident happened on Jan. 6. "There is not a monetary hook to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ukraine's National Resistance Center (NRC) has reported that Russian authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine have banned any mention of St Nicholas in educational institutions, as well as ...

In addition, a complete taboo on carols and nativity scenes has been introduced. Earlier, the invaders held informational discussions with children to discredit Santa Claus and other fairy-tale ...

The nativity story follows Mary and Joseph from being told they will have a baby by the angel Gabriel, through to the birth of Jesus and the visits from the shepherds and wise men. The story of ...

In late summer of 1994, The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute at the University of Dayton began an earnest effort to collect various contemporary cultural expressions of the ...

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God of every nation and people, from the very beginning of creation you have made known your love: when our need for a Savior was great you sent your Son to be born of the Virgin Mary. To our ...

With his letter, Pope Francis wishes to encourage the beautiful tradition of preparing the Nativity Scene in the days before Christmas. In keeping with the tradition, various Vatican dicasteries have ...

For today we have 51 of the funniest memes Tuesday has to offer. We're carving some new faces onto Tuesday's Mt. Rushmore of ...