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 ...

A mock synagogue at a Christmas festival in an Italian mountain village offered a surprising opportunity for Jewish outreach ...

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.

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 ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its ...

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 ...

The garrison public affairs office translates summaries of local news articles for the convenience of non-Italian speaking community members. The information contained in these summaries is ...

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

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 ...

Presentation of the nativity scene and the lighting of the Christmas tree in St. Peter ... a depiction of Mary feeding Jesus within an Italian countryside. They disrupted the pastoral calmness ...