PLAINVIEW – Christmas has arrived early at Wayland Baptist University’s Mabee Regional Heritage Center, where an all-new collection of Carolyn Cunningham’s international Nativity scenes is on display.

A Nativity set, or crèche, is a three-dimensional representation of the birth of Jesus Christ. Some elements of a Nativity set are included because they are mentioned in the Bible. Other figures or ...

The traditional Nativity figures of Mary, Joseph, and the child Jesus will be inside one of the fishermen’s huts, called a 'casone.' Andrea de Walderstein (left) and Antonio Boemo are spearheading the ...

(RNS) — At first glance, the Nativity scene outside Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, has all the traditional hallmarks: Figures resembling Mary and Joseph stand near a baby Jesus, who rests ...

VATICAN CHRISTMAS: The Vatican illuminated this year’s Christmas tree and unveiled the nativity scene for the holiday season on Saturday (12/7). The 95-foot-tall red spruce hails from a forest in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MERRIAM, Kan. — There’s some made of wood ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. SCOTCH GROVE — On the afternoons of Dec. 6 and 7, wealthy women were gossiping at the entrance, learning ...

As the holiday season continues, the First United Methodist Church of Santa Barbara invites the community to reflect on the meaning of Christmas in a tradition that started in 1990. A Living Nativity ...

I spotted it right away on the left side of my kids’ Nativity set, just past the posable figures of the Holy Family and the three wise men, all wearing placid Playmobil expressions. A Wild West ...

A small island town in northern Italy has put its heart into recreating a local lagoon in a Nativity scene for St. Peter’s Square — the first time the crèche will feature a large body of water. “There ...