Politically charged Nativity scenes are not new, but tension over them is escalating this year as pastors express opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement in public displays ...
DEDHAM, Mass. (WPRI) — A Nativity display at a church in Dedham, Massachusetts, is sparking a debate. The display outside Saint Susanna Parish now features a sign that reads “ICE was here” instead of ...
The Christmas crèche symbolizes the birth of Jesus, Catholicism and Christianity itself (“Do away with this manger,” Dec. 8). Father Stephen Josoma chose to use his church’s nativity scene to make a ...
A nativity scene put up in Plainville for more than two decades has stirred up controversy after the display was noticeably absent this year. In two posts made on Facebook, the Plainville Republicans ...
With December now underway, nativity scenes are returning to Christmas markets around Europe. In Brussels, the installation of a new nativity design on the city’s Grand-Place has turned into a scandal ...
Sandro Botticelli, "The Mystical Nativity" (1500), oil on canvas, held at the National Gallery, London (photo via Wikimedia Commons) The Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola had been martyred less than ...
A faceless baby Jesus statue likened to a zombie by a member of Belgium’s ruling conservative party mysteriously disappeared from a Christmas Nativity scene over the weekend. Belgian authorities are ...
DEDHAM, Mass. (WPRI) — A Nativity display at a church in Dedham, Massachusetts, is sparking a debate. The display outside Saint Susanna Parish now features a sign that reads “ICE was here” instead of ...
DEDHAM, Mass. (WPRI) — A Nativity display at a church in Dedham, Massachusetts, is sparking a debate. The display outside Saint Susanna Parish now features a sign that reads “ICE was here” instead of ...