Hughes’ desire to write “Black Nativity” was his attempt to reclaim the story of Jesus’ birth for African Americans – to show the son of God, the ultimate salvation, emerging from the Black community.

A loving Savior sends us personal messages referred to as “tender mercies.” Tender mercies are very personal and ...

One artist who collaborated on creating the Nativity, Faten Nastas Mitwasi, told RNS that Palestinian officials had placed the keffiyeh, a black and ... with the baby Jesus, papal spokesperson ...

The nativity story follows Mary and Joseph from being told they will have a baby by the angel Gabriel, through to the birth of Jesus and the visits from the shepherds and wise men. The story of ...

This time, someone stole a decades-old baby Jesus statue from a Christmas nativity inside the National Shrine of St. John Neumann. The incident happened on Jan. 6. "There is not a monetary hook to ...

That Baby Jesus with outstretched arms, carved from olive wood from the Holy Land by Bethlehem's master craftsmen, has now been placed in the nativity scene without the kefiah. In the Paul VI Hall ...

A: Have you ever seen a representation of the Nativity with two ladies giving the Christ Child a bath? If you read your Bible, you will find that neither Matthew nor Luke report about the incident.