Each year, Greccio celebrates the holiday season by reenacting the birth of the Savior on Christmas Eve, repeating the Nativity until the end of Christmas festivities in January. Greccio is ...

Vatican's Keffiyeh Nativity Scene Raises Eyebrows and Then Disappears — at Least Until Christmas Eve VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis presided over his weekly general audience Wednesday ...

An oplatek is a thin wafer with a nativity scene pressed into it, but the cracker itself really isn’t the point. The Christmas Eve ritual begins with one family member breaking off a piece of ...

In the port of Barcelona, Spain, volunteers from the faith-based ministry Stella Maris visited seven ships docked there on Christmas Eve to deliver Nativity scenes and the local specialty of ...

In the port of Barcelona, Spain, volunteers from the faith-based ministry Stella Maris visited seven ships docked there on Christmas Eve to deliver Nativity scenes and the local specialty of ...

The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main ... that calls for the infant Jesus to only appear in the manger on Christmas Eve. PLO executive committee member Ramzi Khoury who attended ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter's Square as a Christmas ...