On quiet nights during the Christmas season, Ed O’Malley enjoys visiting the Nativity scene he helps set up every year in an Arlington Heights park. He’ll check whether the wind has blown over ...

And she gave birth to her firstborn son and laid him in a manger... (Luke 2:7) The mother, a man, and the child represent the central figures in the story. The baby lies in a cradle made from hay ...

Spirited Silhouettes, 2215 N ... Lincoln Drive: An inflatable Nativity scene surrounded by tasteful lights. Frosty Takeover, 915 W. 12th Ave.: Snowman blow molds brighten the block.

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. The Nativity scene featuring a keffiyeh that was unveiled at the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican on December 7 was ...

(Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – In the wake of global controversy over a Nativity scene displayed at the Vatican showing the infant Jesus resting upon a Palestinian keffiyeh, widely seen ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday alongside a Palestinian-crafted Nativity scene that was missing its eyebrow-raising signature element: a keffiyeh ...

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A nativity scene on public property is again stirring anger in an eastern Iowa town. This time, that anger is directed mostly at an out-of-town atheist group who are ...

"That's the reason for the season, and just the spirit that we've kept going since the very beginning," Chicago Nativity Scene volunteer Harold Hanley said. The Nativity scene features a manger ...

A church nativity scene which features two mothers of the Baby Jesus, instead of the conventional Mary and Joseph figurines, has sparked anger among conservative Catholics and politicians in Italy.