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 ...

This children’s Christmas book paints baby Jesus in a new (or rather ancient) light. In 2010 I visited the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth and was struck by how different ethnic groups ...

A statue of a baby Jesus in a Canadian church got an unexpected makeover, giving onlookers reason to do a double-take. And for good reason. It looks less like the son of Mary and more like the ...

The kaffiyeh — the Bedouin head scarf that has become a symbol of Palestinian resistance — is not only the latest sartorial fad among hipster fashionistas, but is now being used to swaddle baby Jesus ...

Hundreds of plaster Baby Jesus figurines are scattered around scores of stalls in the Niños Dios market of Mexico's capital, where many of the city's Catholic faithful go early each year for help in ...

In an open-air storefront in the historic center of Old Town Quito, a man in a paint-splattered apron holds a paintbrush. He gently dabs it across the cheek of a porcelain baby Jesus doll, one of ...

Most of us know the basics of the story of Jesus’ birth. According to the ancient sources, he was born in Bethlehem to Mary and Joseph, Jews living in Israel in the first century CE. Traditional ...