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Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel lead David Lowery's 'Mother Mary,' for which Hathaway did not receive music in advance.

Read the timeless Christmas song Silent Night lyrics that bring peace, warmth, and joy to holiday celebrations worldwide.

Like the events it symbolises, the story of the nativity scene itself is one steeped in history.

To decry the nativity scene, however, is to deny the centuries-long history of artists depicting the Holy Family in Bethlehem — located in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in Palestine — as ...

The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main audience hall had generated headlines when it was unveiled Dec. 7 because of the presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered headscarf ...

One of the Vatican's Nativity scenes raised eyebrows when it was unveiled because it featured a keffiyeh, the Palestinian headscarf.

Nativity scenes show us the loving parents we all need—and remind me that my own parents estranged me over my faith.

In the wake of global controversy over a Nativity scene displayed at the Vatican showing the infant Jesus resting upon a Palestinian keffiyeh, widely seen as a pro-Palestinian statement, that set ...

The Holy Family figures are carved from olive wood, further connecting the display to its place of origin. The Nativity scene was created in collaboration with the Palestinian Presidential Committee ...

Pope Francis unveiled the annual nativity scene at the Vatican over the weekend - raising some eyebrows in the process.