The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main audience hall had generated headlines when it was unveiled Dec. 7 because of the presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered headscarf ...

(RNS) — The appearance of a keffiyeh on a Palestinian-made nativity scene ... was made to a nativity scene gifted by Palestinian artists: A keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered scarf that ...

The Christmas 2023 Nativity scene at the Vatican will evoke the first ... will be made from thousands of glass Venetian tiles. The 82-foot-tall white spruce to be used for the Vatican Christmas ...

A Nativity scene made by artisans ... and Jesus sculpture had been removed from the scene without explanation. Amid the Israel-Hamas war, the black-and-white checkered keffiyeh has become a ...

Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas ... as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on. The symbolically charged nativity scene is already ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the moments before Pope Francis’ arrival at the Paul VI Hall on Saturday (Dec. 7), a final addition was made to a nativity scene ... the black-and-white checkered ...

Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives for a meeting with the donors of the fir tree set up in St. Peter's Square as a Christmas ...