All across the Columbia area, giant inflatable Santa Clauses watch over homes. Banners of lights brighten up neighborhoods. Reindeer and candy canes and snow men are all aglow. It’s clear that ...

And yet these nativity scenes aren’t much more far-fetched than the traditional ones. Christmas, like many other holidays, is a social ritual informed by some mix of religion and folklore.

A food artist in the U.K. has created an amazing Nativity scene made entirely out of cheddar cheese. Prudence Staite was commissioned by the Pilgrims Choice cheese company to carve the Christmas ...

GALICIA, Spain — A babbling creek and robotic sheep are modern touches in the Christmas Nativity scene displayed in the San Vicente de La Baña church built in the 1700s. But the purpose of the ...

Nativity scenes: Miniatures of the very first Christmas 05:21. The birth of Jesus is what Christmas is all about. Though with all the frantic shopping and stocking stuffing, it's often overlooked.

Their hobby has made them stars in the nativity world. One of Loccisano and Palan’s nativity scenes, depicting a 1930s-era Dust Bowl farming family migrating west, has been accepted by the Vatican. It ...