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Churches turn nativity scenes into protests as immigration crackdowns intensify

Some U.S. churches are reimagining Nativity scenes — surrounding the Holy Family with ICE agents or separating Jesus from Mary and Joseph — to protest the Trump administration's intensifying ...
National Catholic Register

10 Things that Pope Francis Wants Us to Learn from the Nativity Scene

VATICAN CITY — In 2019, Pope Francis issued an apostolic letter on the meaning and importance of the Christmas nativity scene. He signed the document, Admirabile signum (“Enchanting image”), on Dec. 1 ...
America Magazine

The Nativity isn’t cute or cozy. It should scandalize us.

A detail of a Nativity scene displayed in St. Peter's Square is seen in an exhibit at the Vatican Dec. 17, 2024. Credit: (CNS photo/Justin McLellan) Growing up in Scotland in the late ’90s, I was ...
New York Post

Baby Jesus in a keffiyeh is a nativity trend at churches around the world — and people are upset

Nativity scenes around the world have added a new accessory this Christmas season: the keffiyeh. In a controversial take on the classic holiday display, some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s ...
National Catholic Register

St. Francis and the Story of the First Nativity Scene

It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, itinerant preacher. One of the world’s most beloved ...