A boarding house run by Catholic nuns in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has been a home to over 100 children from ...

Depictions of a quiet, peaceful manger scene miss the point of Christmas.

While movies like Elf and Home Alone have become timeless staples in our festive routines, a lot of them feature a lot of ...

Don't be afraid to gaze into the crib this Christmas, like Simeon, who looked beyond the baby to the hope that he brought.

Later during the Christmas season, you might want to watch the 1949 film Come to the Stable that tells the story of Regina ...

St. Francis was inspired, it is believed, by his pilgrimage to the Holy Land to depict the scene of Christ’s birth in a literal way. As his first biographer, Brother Thomas of Celano, explains it, St.

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI revealed a new-style nativity scene in the Vatican's St. Peter's Square. It depicted Jesus' birth ...

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday ...

Greccio, Italy, reenacts a living Nativity scene paying homage to Saint Francis of Assisi, who is credited with starting the ...

Even children are clued-up enough to know Christmas is worth celebrating - despite the "joyless" modern-day puritans' bid to ...

Writer Nell Frizzell on the joys of not buying Christmas presents and ways to give instead. At the risk of incurring the ...