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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on. The symbolically charged nativity ...

Rushed in by tour guides only to visit the Church of the Nativity and a few select shops for souvenirs ... Today’s Palestinian Christians still commemorate the arrival of Joseph and Mary down the ...