Claremont United Methodist Church transformed its Christmas nativity scene into a powerful statement about family separation by caging their figures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and releasing a ...

Put the paper manger right in front of Mary and Joseph paper figures. Place a piece of crumpled paper inside the manger as the hay and then place the baby Jesus figure on top. Download nativity ...

The nativity story follows Mary and Joseph from being told they will have a baby by the angel Gabriel, through to the birth of Jesus and the visits from the shepherds and wise men. The story of ...

writing that Joseph “found a cave there, and led [Mary] into it.” Some Christians accept this interpretation of Jesus’ birthplace. In the fourth century, the Church of the Nativity was built ...

In short, the feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple is a call to profound conversion, to purify our hearts and to ...

By Cliff Johnson At first the stable was empty. Then came lights and trees and straw and snow. Then the characters in the nativity scene at St. Nicholas Church in Carver began arriving, two at ...

Tis the season. I go to the storage room and begin to pull boxes out to get things ready for decorating for Christmas. I begin to move furniture around to get things in place. One of the first things ...

Jankeviciene’s brother and sister-in-law previously had been involved with a live Nativity event while ... a Bethlehem innkeeper and Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus in the barn.

Rushed in by tour guides only to visit the Church of the Nativity and a few select ... commemorate the arrival of Joseph and Mary down the cobbled Star Street and celebrate the birth of Bethlehem’s ...