We lose or break pieces of the Nativity scene because the scene is old and delicate, as many family ... Christmas: the hopeful coming of the Christ Child. Rebecca was right. We need the Baby Jesus.

We wanted the Holy Family to stand in for those nameless people because they also were refugees.” While the Nativity scene shows Jesus shortly after birth and is the foundation of the Christmas ...

And yet these nativity scenes ... Christmas, like many other holidays, is a social ritual informed by some mix of religion and folklore. As you’d expect, many popular depictions of Jesus ...

Claremont United Methodist Church transformed its Christmas nativity scene into a powerful statement about family separation by caging their figures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and releasing a ...

Marielos Bond remembers it was a particularly rough Christmas that ... as long as the Holy Family — Jesus, Mary and Joseph — is there, she counts it as a Nativity scene. Hilma Bond, who ...

A church nativity scene which features two mothers of the Baby Jesus, instead of the conventional ... to showcase non-traditional families in the Christmas display. REUTERS/Ciro De Luca A petition ...

Remember, beyond planning the dinner, gifts, and outfits, the celebration of Christmas should focus on the Birth of the Savior. Amidst the joy and festivities of this season, take a moment for ...

Since 1962, a sweeping life-sized Nativity Scene — depicting numerous figures, but focused on the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph and, beginning on Christmas Eve, the infant Jesus — has been one ...

Fort Collins Police A baby Jesus figurine was returned to a Colorado nativity scene where it was stolen from just days before Christmas — and an apology note was left behind. The statuette was ...

A Christmas nativity scene depicts Jesus, Mary and Joseph separated and ... to imagine what would have happened if the biblical family existed in modern times, saying "What if this family sought ...