Baby Jesus is laid in the manger, now filled and soft with “good deed” straw, surrounded by shepherds. We end by singing happy birthday to Jesus.

A Baby Jesus in a Susquehanna Valley borough's nativity scene was stolen over the weekend.

Although salvation is through Jesus by grace alone and through faith alone, the moral law is part of creation through the Ten Commandments for example. In fact, civil law in western societies relies ...

From the killing fields of Gaza to the shooting galleries that can be any American elementary school, dead children are seen as justifiable collateral casualties to a worthy military objective or ...

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 display in ...

We are all guilty of commodifying Christmas, but what if our “over-the-top” celebrations looked instead like over-the-top generosity, love and care? What if remembering the birth of our Savior ...

A Vatican Nativity scene that depicts the baby Jesus in the manger wrapped in a Palestinian keffiyeh has stirred a Christmas controversy.

It's unclear whether the keffiyeh, manger and baby have been removed in response to the criticism or because of the Advent tradition of waiting for Jesus' arrival on Christmas Day. A spokesman for the ...

The Vatican has stated, in response to broad speculation over the keffiyeh’s disappearance, that it’s tradition for the baby Jesus to be removed from the nativity until the night before Christmas.

My atheistic parenting would be exposed, and on Christmas Day, of all days. A murder of nuns in black cloaks would swoop from the pews to banish me to the inferno for letting this child refer to Jesus ...

More than 20 years ago, a group of volunteers in the Valley began to organize Bethlehem Village, a live nativity scene performed in Afton.