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

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Not this time. The baby in the crib the pope found so moving, was positioned lying on top of a Palestinian keffiyeh. Apologists and excusers for the Pontiff rushed to deny that the Church was ...

Broadcaster Kel Richards questions the “bizarre” decision from the Vatican to display a Nativity scene with baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh. “What they’ve decided to do is chuck out the ...

(RNS) — The appearance of a keffiyeh on a Palestinian-made nativity scene at the Vatican caused a stir. So did its sudden disappearance. VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the moments before Pope Francis ...

The keffiyeh was visible during the presentation of the Bethlehem Nativity to Pope Francis in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Dec. 7. By Dec. 11, four days later, the headscarf, manger ...

A view of Nativity Scene is in the Pope Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Dec. 7. Crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, with Baby Jesus’ crib covered by a Palestinian kaffiyeh donated by ...

After the display raised a few eyebrows, the Vatican appears to have removed a Nativity scene that showed baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh, the traditional scarf used as a national symbol by ...

Following a flurry of controversy, the Vatican chose to remove a nativity decoration that included a baby Jesus atop a black-and-white keffiyeh, a symbol often linked to Palestinian nationalism.