A church nativity scene featuring two mothers of the Baby Jesus instead of the conventional Mary and Joseph has sparked anger in Italy. Nativity scenes are popular in the largely Catholic country ...
In 1968, a group of American artists led by Joey Skaggs constructed a Vietnamese Nativity scene in Central Park, with a Vietnamese Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in a manger covered with bamboo ...
Many families have a nativity scene, or creche, that sits on the mantel, the sideboard or out on the lawn. The history of this representation of Jesus’ birth has its origins, unsurprisingly, in ...