Each winter, thousands of people descend on the tiny village of Meisenthal, France, a little more than an hour’s drive from ...

Christmas 2023 marks 800 years since St. Francis of Assisi staged the first manger scene in the hill town of Greccio, about 50 miles north of Rome. Pope Francis visits the Nativity scene in St ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Vatican. A large hand-carved wooden ... The tree was adorned with ornaments made by children at a psychiatric rehabilitation center in Italy.

The Christmas 2023 Nativity scene at the Vatican will evoke the first-ever live manger, which was created by St. Francis of Assisi in Italy in the 1200s, the Vatican said Monday. The Vatican’s ...