This small village has a rich religious history, being credited with starting the tradition of live Nativity scenes. Located in the Lazio region of Italy, the town of Greccio is where Saint ...

For the past 23 years, volunteers have spent weeks making Christmas magic happen here at St. Brigid Catholic Church in Westbury, with an detailed Italian nativity scene called Presepio.

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now ...

Around the Christmas season ... This first living Nativity scene – which was famously depicted by Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone in the Arena Chapel of Padua, Italy – ushered ...

Some bakeries have taken things up a notch, crafting edible Nativity scenes out of panettone and chocolate. And while many Italian families will sit down to elaborate seafood feasts on Christmas ...

The holidays give him even more prominence in their minds. Now, each year new additions fill out the sprawling Christmas village born from the Nativity scene, populated with authentic Italian ...

Briscoe said that seeing figures helps believers more easily "contemplate the glory of that first Christmas." "Setting up a Nativity scene in your home allows your home to become another Bethlehem ...