A unique mechanical batleika (nativity puppet show) has been assembled for Christmas at the Church of Our Lady of the Angels (Franciscan) in Grodno. Assembling the batleika takes ...

In all its artistic iterations across millennia, the nativity remains inherently political in its depiction of God choosing ...

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THE ELCHE City Council, through its Department of Festivities, as well as the Association of Residents of Elche, are ...

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A nativity exhibition made up of about 80 nativity sets collected from around the world is being put on display this weekend. Organisers said the display at St Thomas's Church, Northlew, Devon, was ...

The Grodno State Historical and Archaeological Museum is hosting traditional Nativity puppet plays, known as batleika for audiences of all ages. The batleika shows will run through the Orthodox ...

HAVE MIXED OPINIONS. THIS CONTROVERSIAL NATIVITY SCENE AT A CATHOLIC CHURCH IN DEDHAM WILL REMAIN THE ARCHDIOCESE, SENDING THE PARISH A LETTER CALLING IT A DIVISIVE POLITICAL DISPLAY AND TO REMOVE THE ...

DEDHAM, Mass. -- One baby Jesus lays in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists zip-tied. Mary stands nearby outside the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, ...

A church in Charlotte, North Carolina, reportedly sought to "disturb passersby" this Christmas with a Nativity scene that depicts Jesus, Mary and Joseph with "masked immigration agents wearing ...

DEDHAM — The Rev. Stephen Josoma has been the only priest at St. Susanna’s Church for 24 years, and he hasn’t shied away from using the parish’s nativity scene in the past to focus attention on social ...

(RNS) — Inspired by Cape Cod cuisine and a beloved holiday movie, the Lobster Nativity portrays the characters of the Christmas story as crustaceans. (RNS) — Drive down the Mass Pike, on Route 128 ...