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The story so far: As State measures to determine identity and citizenship roil the country and result in sharp socio-political polarisation, the Kerala government has gone ahead with its decision to ...

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 ...

Ronald Seaman began collecting Nativity sets a few years ago, and his collection quickly outgrew his ability to display it in his home. It all started before he retired as Berks County’s chief ...

Pilgrims hold up statues of the infant Jesus to be blessed during Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Angelus address in St. Peter’s Square Dec. 21, 2025. (Credit: Vatican Media.) Listen ROME – Pope Leo XIV Sunday ...

The beloved 123-piece Christmas Nativity display at Centennial Park drew millions of visitors from around the world before closing in the 1960s, but its magic lives on in a new book NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Victoria-Maria Geyer's Christmas nativity scene with faceless characters being unveiled at the Grand-Place in Brussels on November 28 (photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP via Getty Images) If you need any ...

In a manger in front of Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, the baby Jesus’ hands are bound with plastic zip ties. Roman centurions in sunglasses and camo jackets stand menacingly over him, ...

At Oak Lawn United Methodist Church's Nativity scene, Mary and Joseph are silhouettes, surrounded by a chain-link fence topped with razor wire. Their halos are old bicycle wheels. A shopping cart and ...

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday told the clergy leaders whose churches have used Christmas Nativity scenes to protest immigration enforcement to “get a grip and seek ...

EVANSTON, Ill. (WLS) -- The Nativity scene staged by an Evanston church was meant to be provocative. It retells the ancient story of the holy family in a contemporary context, referencing federal ...