The attempt to project contemporary politics or our own aspirations onto such a sacred figure is always problematic.

Pope Francis has sent a clear message to Israel after unveiling this year’s Christmas nativity scene in St Peter’s Square. The display features a baby Jesus, lying on a manger lined with the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Police in Fort Collins, Colorado, were looking for a suspect who reportedly stole a baby Jesus figurine from a nativity scene, but said the thief returned the figurine on ...

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DENVER — A baby Jesus figurine snatched from a nativity scene in Colorado has been returned in time for Christmas, with an apology. The statuette of Jesus lying in a manger, stolen from a public ...

Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive ... as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on. The symbolically charged nativity scene is already turning ...

The nativity story follows Mary and Joseph from being told they will have a baby by the angel Gabriel, through to the birth of Jesus and the visits from the shepherds and wise men. The story of ...