The "hipster nativity set" is a modern take on the nativity scene, filled with Segways, selfies, and Amazon Prime.
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Company Modern Nativity has created a nativity set a little different from the one you used to play with at your grandmother's house.
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This nativity is on view outside the church, while a conventional nativity, with baby Jesus wrapped in traditional swaddling cloths, can be found inside.
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No French state school is allowed to hold a nativity play or carol service, just as no French town hall can display a nativity scene.
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That's the Nativity story one couple in California is telling, after setting up a Nativity in their yard with two Joseph figures instead of a Mary and a Joseph.
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A peculiar nativity scene is causing outraged reactions in Spain.
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Build a nativity scene showing the birth of the iPhone.
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The nativity scene at Fellowship Congregational Church in Tulsa, Okla.
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Since then, Nativity scenes have been mentioned rarely at court.
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The nativity was part of the city's special gay Christmas party.
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In Colorado, Hispanic residents re-enact the nativity during Las Posadas.
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Minnesota has seen a flurry of Nativity thefts in recent weeks.
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Nativity images have been found in fourth-century catacombs in Rome.
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On the train, I started to worry about the nativity scene.
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School nativity plays are a popular tradition in UK primary schools.
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Depictions of the Nativity are as old as any surviving Christian art.
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Consider last year's nativity in Barcelona, the largest ever constructed in Spain.
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Our neighbors' two Joseph nativity is up & I'm beaming 🎄👬 pic.twitter.
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Nativity. Every tree on their property was adorned with something that sparkled.
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She even has a chipped wooden Mary nativity in the front yard.
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When needed, they can bring a little contingency for your flaming nativity.
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And Sarah Jessica Parker had an entire nativity scene on her head.
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Last year, the church's nativity scene sought to highlight America's deadliest shootings.
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Bethlehem (CNN)A church service begins in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.
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In the Middle Ages, caroling became popular with attendees of Nativity plays.
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In the Middle Ages, caroling became popular with attendees of nativity plays.
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And baby Jesus figurines are snatched from Nativity scenes with sinful frequency.
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"The Roman Nativity scene typically reproduces the 19th-century city, with classic costumes and neighborhoods that no longer exist, often inspired by watercolors of the time," said Antonella Salvatori, of the Italian Friends of the Nativity Scene Association.
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Click through to check out photos of Lyst's pop culture savvy Nativity scene.
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Caravaggio's Nativity was uniquely challenging—in most cases, Factum Arte works from originals.
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The Church of the Nativity isn't the only church to take extra precautions.
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As thefts at nativity scenes rise, communities are turning to elaborate security measures.
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With help from his members, he restocked the Nativity scene with donated items.
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The question was specifically about where the Church of the Nativity is located.
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The nativity stirred up controversy online, with some disagreeing with the political overtones.
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In October 2017, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks said Abbott violated the First Amendment by ordering the removal of a satirical nativity scene from the state capitol that replaced nativity characters with three Founding Fathers looking at the Bill of Rights.
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Every Christmas, I look forward to one thing and one thing only: nativity drama.
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This nativity was also submitted to Queer Appalachia as part of their Christmas series.
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From there, it quickly snowballed into what the nativity would look like in 2016.
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At least, that's what one cat did to a nativity in Queens in 2017.
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A Massachusetts church is using its nativity scene to send a message about immigration.
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A church secretary at the Church of the Nativity in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
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Traditional nativity scene figures, meanwhile, are often relegated indoors and out of plain sight.
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But there is another source that locates the Nativity in the wilderness: the Quran.
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When it comes to the Nativity, however, the Quran differs from the New Testament.
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" A $200 clue stated: "Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity.
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"; "My long and storied career began with a nativity play at 11 years old.
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Here's a look at what this holiday season involves at the White House: 50th anniversary of Nativity scene display The first lady's office confirmed to The Hill that the White House will display a Nativity scene honoring the birth of Jesus Christ.
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It's basically a little figure that drops trou and poops all over nativity scenes. Why?
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Simone Cariss, a parent at Our Lady of the Nativity Primary School, started the Change.
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The group is typically triggered by Nativity scenes and Bibles placed on Missing Man tables.
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Gay nativity scenes aren't exactly new, but they are rarely spotted in the suburban wild.
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"There will be lights, parties, Christmas trees and Nativity scenes," he said in late November.
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That's it, my heart has burst 💔 a Dublin based dog kennel nativity😭 pic.twitter.
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The statue of baby Jesus was stolen from the Nativity scene in St. Cloud, Minn.
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In December, it hosted a holiday parade and a drive-through Nativity with live actors.
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While some commenting on the post praise the church's initiative, many other censure the nativity.
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UMA saved me today, maybe JOSEPH of the nativity scene at 58A will save you.
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Fans talk outside "Mary," West's version of the Nativity story with his Sunday Service choir.
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Of course, not all queer nativity scenes incite fury, but when they do, it's rul' gross.
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Prayer in school has been ruled out, as have stand-alone nativity scenes inside government buildings.
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Traditionally, the nativity scene is pastoral — meant to inspire feelings of joy, not gut-wrenching horror.
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Shots of a nativity scene follow; a chorus of people sing Christian hymns in the background.
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Just as she started the book with the birth of Anjum, she now stages another nativity.
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The United States Census Bureau began to take note of "mixed nativity" marriages only in 2013.
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The power of the story of the nativity is its ability to transform our prosaic experience.
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Rome, with its churches and chapels by the score, has an especially rich Nativity-scene scene.
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In the popular British Christmas movie, "Love Actually," the characters even attend a Christmas nativity play.
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It was in a private park, but Pawtucket used public money to buy the Nativity scene.
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Schools and government buildings have replaced Christmas trees and nativity sets with holiday lights and reindeer.
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First made in the 18th century, the small sculptures are usually placed in a Nativity scene.
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"I think it tried to deport the figures in our nativity scene," said one single-star review.
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But when the lights were rolling, it looked more like a Nativity play kid desperately pulling focus.
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Queer comedienne Cameron Esposito spotted the gay Nativity scene, which her neighbors put up on their lawn.
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From Bethlehem to Brooklyn, it looks like there is a nativity scene for everyone this holiday season.
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As the Nativity story recounts every Advent, Jesus was not conceived through relations between Joseph and Mary.
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Hispanic children in Colorado re-enact the story of the nativity during an event called Las Posadas.
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Christianity In Bethlehem, doors are closed at the Church of the Nativity, considered the birthplace of Jesus.
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Around the country, nativity scenes are being robbed of their focal figure (and sometimes of Mary, too).
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Church leaders bought a new Nativity set and placed it outside this month on a snowmobile trailer.
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The display began, as so many things do, simply enough, with a Nativity scene in a manger.
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However, the early Christian narratives about the birth of Jesus — also called the Nativity — were more diverse.
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But the Muslim text goes on to describe a Nativity scene that isn't found in the Protevangelium.
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Who doesn't enjoy gazing upon a plastic Nativity scene featuring Mary and Joseph with poorly painted eyes?
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It was placed in Saint Catherine's Church, at the Church of the Nativity compound in Manger Square.
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The church has a decade-long history of presenting highly creative, artistic, and often controversial nativity scenes.
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After the theft, a blurry photograph of the "Nativity" was hung in the chapel in its place.
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A California church has sparked controversy with its nativity scene showing Joseph, Mary, and Jesus in cages
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He argued that giving equal footing to Santa and his reindeer to the Nativity scene insulted everyone.
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Elsewhere in the country, a nativity scene built by a far-right mayor constitutes provocative identity politics.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The traditional nativity scene in St. Peter's Square won't be so traditional this year.
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Joyful and triumphant, together we will make nativity scenes out of Fisher Price and aliens and drag queens.
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"That photo looks like if they took it in the storage where the nativity sits," one tweeter said.
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This includes crashing a nativity to play the part of Baby Jesus, but only on its own time.
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From now on, I will ONLY play Herod in my family's annual nativity, wearing THAT suit, THOSE boots.
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For instance, stringing lights on the Church of the Nativity opened a fraught negotiation between the three denominations.
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Moore's church is not the first to use its nativity scene to protest the Trump administration's immigration policies.
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Progressive churches elsewhere in the country have used their nativity scenes to make similar political statements this year.
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His children's books include "Sun, Moon, Star," a Nativity story, with text by Kurt Vonnegut, published in 1980.
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The first gig she remembers was at age 6, when she played Mary in a school Nativity play.
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Before the Factum "Nativity" was sent to Palermo, he noticed a few details that still made him unhappy.
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Abbas and all his ministers gather at the Church of the Nativity, and Odeh wanted to join them.
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In 2017, Elwood, Ohio, and Santa Monica moved Nativity scenes away from public places to avoid potential lawsuits.
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The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem was closed after a coronavirus case was confirmed in the area.
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Within the pop culture sphere, Spider-Man's origin story has become an American superhero nativity scene of sorts.
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This nativity was sent to Queer Appalachia, my favorite Instagram account for all things queer and Appalachian and weird.
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But what was most impressive was that she wore an actual nativity scene — made to scale — on her headpiece.
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Obama critics even rejected photo proof of the Nativity scene on display in the Obama White House last year.
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Well, we at Starbucks are tired of constantly receiving faxes of the nativity scene photoshopped onto a Peppermint Mocha.
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The cow has been part of the live nativity scene before and is comfortable being around people, including children.
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During the second intifada in 2002, Palestinian terrorists fired at Israeli troops from within Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity.
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In 1987, he was pictured dressed up as a red and green elf heading to his own nativity show.
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Against a starry night sky, topless and pale-skinned women with a menagerie of animals restage the nativity scene.
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The sculpture joins a nativity scene to commemorate Christmas and a menorah to celebrate Hanukkah in the statehouse rotunda.
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They include decorations for "Christmas festivities, nativity scenes and figures thereof," as well as Christmas tree lights and ornaments.
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The nativity statues at the Christ Church Cathedral are enclosed in a chain link fence lined with barbed wire.
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Still, he said, he wants to keep his family's workshop alive because he loves the Church of the Nativity.
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It was a scene straight out of a Christmas nativity — just a few weeks (and a few sheep!) short.
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This is not the first time a feminist activist has tried to grab the statue out of the Nativity.
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CUMC is one of several progressive churches in the US that have transformed their nativity scenes into political actions.
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The Church of Nativity is located in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, which is controlled by Palestinian authorities.
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Most Nativity scenes come equipped with shepherds, magi, and a camel or two, but Roman ruins and a poodle?
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The message of the Nativity scene, which is outdoors, has not been lost on supporters of the administration's policies.
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Today, Abbott is at the center of a new Nativity scene case that Texas has lost, but is appealing.
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One key element that has yet to be revealed is a Nativity scene, the White House confirmed on Saturday.
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In both 2009 and 2012, in particular, our nativity displays attempted to raise similar awareness on immigration policy concerns.
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As NATO celebrates its 70th anniversary Thursday, Ismay's insight about its nativity is relevant again -- in a literal sense.
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Varano said he expected some criticism from conservatives who think nativity scenes should be made up of traditional statues.
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The earliest Nativity sermons dwell more on this cosmic mystery—the infinite meeting the finite—than on any sentimental details.
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There's a two Marys Nativity scene out there, too, and it's complete with a baby Jesus swaddled in a rainbow.
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Probably low, but this dog-only nativity scene shows us what COULD HAVE BEEN and it is very good, indeed.
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Some enterprising folks created an all-meat nativity scene that is at once both wondrous and suitable for breakfast. Incredible.
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They also lease them to zoos and churches, which use them for nativity scenes, for up to $22019,200 a month.
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One showed an elaborate nativity scene that Mr. Ortiz-Rivera, who worked at Party City and Sunglass Hut, had designed.
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"We feel it's a First Amendment issue, we have other displays there -- a Hanukkah menorah and Nativity scene," Drucker said.
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With a handcrafted nativity scene and several light displays, the Setti house was something of a tourist attraction for years.
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Some of the older Turpin children were putting up a Nativity scene outside their house, and she complimented their decorations.
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What remains are about a dozen of the oratorio's more meditative and lyrical numbers that dramatically streamline the Nativity story.
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Those nativity scenes: The presepio is to Italians what the Christmas tree is to Germans and Santa is to Americans.
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The church has had pet blessings, bake sales and, recently, a live nativity with farm animals to draw neighbors inside.
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And a couple of years later, Maradona became the first soccer player to appear in the city's nativity scene shops.
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The Nativity scene in the church of Santa Barbara dei Librai, below, exactly depicts the piazza just outside the church.
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The Church of the Nativity, which is believed to be the place where Jesus was born, is located in Bethlehem.
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Although the Three Wise Men have become part of Christmas canon, there's precious little about them in the nativity story.
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Every year, a few controversies pop up nationally about the display of Nativity scenes at public courthouses, parks and capitols.
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It's clear that the reindeer rule's legacy is the opening of a battle on two fronts about public Nativity scenes.
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Irene Reyes, a tourist from Arizona, stopped by the nativity scene and became emotional as she talked about its message.
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There are calendars with puffy, soft shapes that slowly form a nativity scene or depict the adventures of Olaf from Frozen.
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Later, he was to celebrate Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity, built at the grotto revered as Jesus' birthplace.
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The tradition of living nativity scenes started in 1989 and features costumed performers, actors and singers amid light and sound effects.
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Animal lovers can also volunteer to feed and look after the furry players who take part in the live nativity scene.
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A typical nativity play includes a variety of background animals, like sheep and ponies, because Mary gave birth in a stable.
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That line of thought has in fact helped to convince the American judiciary that Nativity displays on government property are legitimate.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Music is as much a part of the Christmas season as nativity scenes, snow and Santa grottos.
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Driving through the park, guests can see over 150 light displays that include the nativity scene, Santa's workshop, reindeer, and elves.
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The president's tweet comes as Egypt opens the Nativity of Christ, the largest cathedral in the region, on Coptic Christmas Eve.
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All the while, the census asked about nativity (where a person was born) and ancestry (where a person's parents were born).
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We're proudly getting ready for our Yule-time cookouts, our Noel fireworks shows, our nativity pool parties, kids selling mulled lemonade!
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Some owners of Nativity scenes, long a centerpiece of Christmas celebrations, suggest an erosion of faith may be at the root.
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"He was an idol, and becoming a figure in the nativity scene was a form of sanctification," Niola said of Maradona.
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Di Virgilio cringed at the idea that people might place one of his soccer player figurines inside a traditional nativity scene.
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Another family movie, "The Star," an animated telling of the Nativity story, also arrived to sturdy ticket sales over the weekend.
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The main bottleneck, he said, was the tiny front door of the Nativity church, through which pilgrims must crouch to enter.
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It also uses Nativity scene/no-room-at-the-inn ideas to address the hateful rejection of immigrants now on display.
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By collapsing scientific fact with aesthetic wonderment, Rocha Pitta transforms the Hamelin Pool into a biological nativity scene of cosmic proportions.
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Harry showed off his tongue again for the cameras when he arrived at a school nativity play with his mother, Princess Diana.
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Parker, 28, paired her gold three-quarter-length-sleeve Dolce & Gabbana gown with a towering headpiece featuring a nativity scene to scale.
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The final section, "Botticelli in his Own Time", displays the painter's own works, including "The Mystic Nativity" and "Pallas and the Centaur".
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Or that French Nativity scenes often include figures like bakers, butchers, and policemen, as well as the usual sheep and Baby Jesus?
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Parker, 53, paired her gold three-quarter-length-sleeve Dolce & Gabbana gown with a towering headpiece featuring a nativity scene to scale.
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Of course, this set off a firestorm of debate but it also resulted in others sharing their own LGBTQ-themed nativity scenes.
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The 3-year-old royal's pre-school held their annual nativity play on Thursday afternoon, according to the Willcocks Nursery School website.
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The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is built over the traditional site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been born.
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Harry showed off his tongue again for the cameras when he arrived at a school nativity play with his mother, Princess Diana.
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It's a nativity scene of sorts, set under coconut trees and soundtracked by Marrabenta-style dance music surging from a battered loudspeaker.
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Nativity scenes became prominent in Naples in the late 1700s as an art form besides painting that the city's nobility could patronize.
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The Christmas lights stayed up until February, Ms. Milligan said, and the nativity star in the window remains there to this day.
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One Caravaggio scholar said she was naturally thrilled that the "Nativity" could still come to light, but was dubious about turncoat accounts.
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The two tried deducting a slew of expenses, including swimming pool supplies, landscaping, a Nativity set and an SUV, the court found.
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A Christian celebrating Halloween would be like a Satan worshiper putting up a nativity scene at Christmas while singing, 'Happy Birthday, Jesus!
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Claremont United Methodist Church in California is making headlines for its nativity scene, which shows Joseph, Mary, and Jesus as detained migrants.
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The Court's 5-4 ruling was the first time the words "nativity scene" and "crèche" were part of a Supreme Court decision.
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Built in the 4th century, the Church of the Nativity has undergone several makeovers due to both natural and man-made disasters.
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That's when she turned to the nativity figurines I had set out for Christmas to play out the angst in our household.
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Here's a playlist of eight songs that have become as critical to Christmas celebrations in Latin America as Nativity scenes and poinsettias.
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If Ms Maréchal rails against French secularists, who chase nativity scenes from town halls at Christmas, her main gripe is mass Muslim immigration.
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While the word "hipster" has seemingly lost all meaning, there's still plenty of comedy to be wrung out of this "Hipster nativity" set.
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In modern times, protests by animal-rights campaigners reach an annual crescendo as quadrupeds are hauled on for display in live Nativity scenes.
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In Spain, animal advocates were appalled when a young donkey, featured in a Nativity show, died after an overweight man tried riding it.
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In the first display, nativity statues were enclosed in the barbed wire-lined cage, which was meant to resemble an immigration detention center.
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The streets of Bethlehem are lined with tiny shops, many selling olive wood trinkets and beautifully carved nativity sets, but they are struggling.
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The faithful were outraged, and someone donated a new Jesus doll for the Nativity set, which had been displayed around town for decades.
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In fact, the entire store (like Ferrigno's) is covered with photographs of soccer players holding their own likenesses in nativity scene statuette form.
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The divided responses to this year's nativity prompted the church to publish a press release, made available on its website yesterday, December 9.
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" He digitally combined details from multiple photographs of the "Nativity," including black-and-white images, to create the "most complete data set possible.
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The only clue I was really sad to lose, particularly given the timing of the puzzle's appearance, was "Nativity scene?" for 60-Down.
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A five-year-old girl spent almost the entirety of her nativity play standing with her two middle fingers raised to the audience.
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In the debate, Melenchon poked fun at the National Front leader's proposal to reform the constitution to protect Catholic traditions like nativity scenes.
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When Palestinian militants occupied the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, in 20400, Israeli forces reportedly tried to eject them with heavy metal.
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Small items like pieces of pottery or parts of a Nativity scene left behind on a retaining wall are sometimes all that's left.
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A tree on the main square is alight in blue; a Nativity scene has Mary and Joseph standing vigil beside the baby Jesus.
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A Reuters photographer said the woman jumped over guard rails and rushed onto the larger-than-life Nativity scene shouting "God is woman".
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"I love the story of the nativity, this was part of my childhood and this story tells it in a splendid way," she says.
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And partly because, with his musicologist's eye, he reads into them a mystical Christian programme, from the nativity to the crucifixion to the resurrection.
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Catalonia's caganer — elegantly translated as "the shitter" — is a figurine that's hidden in pessebre nativity scenes in Spain that's existed since the 18th century.
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People like to put together these nativity scenes with lots of different figurines so it's not just Jesus and Joseph and the Virgin Mary.
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"The Nativity Scene was removed when the American hating Obama's [sic] were disgracing our White House along with our country," one Twitter user claimed.
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"This product started (as all good products do) at a happy hour with our friends," Casey Wright, co-founder of Modern Nativity, told CNBC.
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Sort of like the North Star, which is a big part of the nativity story and this baby looks like she's coming near Christmas.
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At times, Korina's boxes resemble vernacular street shrines, adapting the theatrical manner in which nativity scenes are typically staged to depict major cosmological events.
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He had been cast as a shepherd in a Nativity play, and over the summer break was instructed to learn to play the recorder.
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The film — which tells the Nativity story through the eyes of talking animals — is co-financed by Walden Media and received an A CinemaScore.
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Fractured politics mirror the fractured religions: The main attraction in Bethlehem is the Church of the Nativity, said to the be birthplace of Jesus.
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In the Church of the Nativity, the walls, the windows and even a crack in the floor are claimed by one of the three.
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Nearly 210 years after Caravaggio's masterpiece, "Nativity With San Lorenzo and San Francesco" (214), was scandalously stolen, the thieves have still not been found.
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In a break in the action, Ms. Beckman told the stage manager Rachael Houser to order up a Nativity crèche from the prop master.
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St. Peter's Square in the Vatican has a Nativity scene every year, naturally, and this year's was created by the Maltese artist Manwel Grech.
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Also, a California church mounted a nativity scene that comments on US–Mexico border detentions, "classic blue" is Pantone's color of 2020, and more.
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Cullman's structure, though, is super sized, with six rotating tiers, including one with a Nativity scene, moved by a motorized rotor at the top.
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But he has a lot of good memories, like using a life-size fiberglass Nativity set as cover in games of hide-and-seek.
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At St. Anthony Orthodox Church in Butler, Pennsylvania, much of the congregation is participating in some way in the Nativity Fast, said the Rev.
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A California Methodist Church is stirring conversation with its nativity scene this year, which depicts the Holy Family as detained migrants, ABC 7 reported.
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The town has even extended the opening hours of the Church of the Nativity, revered by Christians worldwide as the place of Jesus' birth.
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And U.S. imports from China of targeted Christmas products - including ornaments, nativity scenes and Christmas tree lights - totaled at least $2.3 billion last year.
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But it is still an important part of certain retellings of the Nativity, the story of Jesus's birth and the reason Christians celebrate Christmas.
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Conspiracy theorists in the racist right-wing fever swamps suggested that Obama's secret Muslim faith and alleged Kenyan nativity were behind his undermining of Israel.
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WHILE most Christians are putting away their Christmas decorations, a substantial minority of them are only now preparing to commemorate the Nativity of Jesus Christ.
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For some eastern Christians (those who refused to accept a calendar reform in the 1920s), the Nativity feast comes to a head today and tomorrow.
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In the same way, some of the funniest set pieces in the musical—an "alternative" nativity play among them—feel squarely aimed at the parents.
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Prince George joined a royal family Christmas tradition this year: participating in his school's nativity play — just like his father and uncle did before him!
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Dad William recently shared 4-year-old George's wish list for Santa and he took part in his school's Christmas nativity play — as a sheep!
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Vatican police have arrested a topless Femen protester who attempted to steal a statue of baby Jesus from a Vatican Nativity scene on Christmas Day.
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The image of him taking LSD before heading home on his bicycle, pedaling unsteadily into the technicolor future, is the acid heads' own Nativity scene.
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Dad William recently shared 4-year-old George's wish list for Santa and he took part in his school's Christmas nativity play — as a sheep!
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From afar, the Israeli tear gas looks like the smoke from frankincense, of the sort that pilgrims burn when visiting the Church of the Nativity.
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The tree consists of over 350 singers, and the event, which is around two hours long, includes dancing, a nativity scene, and a light show.
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Most of those who had played Angel Gabriel in their school nativity worked in marketing, while playing an ox was linked to working in advertising.
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Vatican protest Well, you don't see this everyday: a topless protester at the Vatican, trying to steal a baby Jesus doll from a nativity scene.
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Dr. Bridget Catherine Dowd and Dr. Samuel Joseph Kiernan were married May 4 at the Church of the Nativity in Fair Haven, N.J. The Rev.
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She'll also appear in a chamber version of Mr. Adams's Nativity oratorio "El Niño," and in a program of Langston Hughes poems set to music.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was ordered closed on Thursday due to concern over the coronavirus, the Palestinian Tourism Ministry said.
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One said that the "Nativity" — whose dating flip-flops between 1600 and 1609, depending on which scholars you ask — had been burned in a fire.
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A topless feminist activist reportedly attempted to grab a statue of the baby Jesus from the Vatican's Nativity scene in St. Peter's Square on Monday.
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The Nativity figures that are believed to be the oldest in existence, below, were sculpted by Arnolfo di Cambio for Pope Nicholas IV in 1291.
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But there was that time, in 2014, when he donated a life-size Nativity to a Michigan lawmaker to put up near the state capitol.
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It is a wholly secular affair, with nary a nativity scene to be found, all in service to the only holiday activity that matters: shopping.
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The Nativity Story starring Oscar Isaac as Joseph, the eldest Sand Snake as the Virgin Mary, and three wisecracking wise men to leaven the mood.
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I'm particularly thankful for America's rich history of queer nativity scenes, which manage to incense the worst people on the internet every few years or so.
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The MRFF is a militant organization that has fought against Nativity scenes, Bible studies and any outward expressions of the Christian faith on U.S. military installations.
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Lines of pilgrims squeezed through a narrow sandstone entrance to the Church of the Nativity to visit the grotto where Christian faithful believe Jesus was born.
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A baby Jesus statue will be the highlight of a New Jersey church's nativity scene this year, appearing for the first time in nearly a century.
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Giacaman has tried to make his shop welcoming for everyone: It carries menorahs, Nativity sets, Arabic calligraphy — and welcomes tourists who need to use the toilet.
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When she was still in college, Louis-Dreyfus was cast on "Saturday Night Live," where she played a televangelist with a raunchy retelling of the Nativity.
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In California, he celebrates Mass at the Church of the Nativity in Rancho Santa Fe, and was scheduled to do so as recently as last Sunday.
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The theft, from a Nativity scene outside City Hall, raised alarm in this eastern Pennsylvania city that shares a name with the real Jesus Christ's birthplace.
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While many townhouses in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, are tricked out with glowing Santas and elaborate Nativity scenes, one homeowner has put forth a different decorative concept.
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Jaden Smith toting his gold plaque for his hit "Icon," for example (wittier than Sarah Jessica Parker's gold headdress, a literal interpretation of a nativity scene).
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There, he signed a papal document known as an Apostolic Letter and titled "Admirabile Signum," (Wonderful Sign) on the meaning and importance of the nativity scene.
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A theological statement published on CUMC's website and printed on a placard near the nativity cites the family's flight from Nazareth to Egypt after Jesus's birth.
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"Jeopardy!" came under fire for rejecting the answer "Palestine" for a clue asking for the location of Jesus Christ&aposs birthplace, the Church of the Nativity.
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Asked to elaborate, she referred to the annual Christmas disputes in some towns over whether they could put up a Nativity scene in a town hall.
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While religious elementary schools in the United States may put on nativity plays, they are arguably much more popular and part of the culture in Britain.
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And when it did, the court was deeply divided over the display of Nativity scenes that were in a publicly owned spot or used public funds.
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When he tries to make up for the incident by arranging a live nativity scene, Larry gets into a physical fight with the man playing Joseph.
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This traditional crowded nativity scene is not depicted in the New Testament gospels but constitutes a mash-up of different accounts of the birth of Jesus.
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Yara Hidalgo, 25, is a student teacher at Sacred Heart Nativity Schools, a job made possible when she qualified for an earlier, more limited version of DACA.
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If you're going to go off-script for a nativity scene, as one child does in this video from Tennessee, you'd better be prepared for the consequences.
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And, just as it did in its first year (33), the show offers the "Living Nativity," a tableau vivant of the Bethlehem manger, complete with live camels.
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Let's suppose, for the sake of argument, that the role of animals in the Nativity story is a kind of artistic embellishment, an attractive but secondary detail.
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In early America, some strict Protestants did not celebrate the Nativity at all, while Catholics, Episcopalians, Moravians and Lutherans had their own ways of marking the event.
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There was a coatrack made from an oar, a fish-shaped watering can, a Nativity scene (Joseph and Mary are headless), and a toy dog named Dave.
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She topped off the ensemble with a towering headpiece that featured a nativity scene to scale, directly honoring the theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination."
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In 25 out of 30 European countries, for example, mixed-nativity marriage is on the rise, with the proportion, in some cases, reaching up to 20 percent.
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Scenes followed one another without much connection, and the shift to the graver spectacle of the Living Nativity was abrupt, though the donkey and camels enchanted us.
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Vincenzo Nicolella, artistic director of the Neapolitan Association of the Presepe, said he was concerned that the universe of acceptable nativity scene characters was expanding too rapidly.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, March 5 (Reuters) - Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was ordered closed on Thursday due to concern over the coronavirus, the Palestinian Tourism Ministry said.
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Three generations are celebrating after their yearly Nativity play, and much like at an actual gathering of relatives, Ms. Deliquet doles out attention carefully to her performers.
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Whether comprised of gingerbread, porcelain, or live performers, such nativity scenes usually include Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus surrounded by shepherds, angels, and assorted farm animals.
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The holidays have their own menagerie of iconic animals, from Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to that random sheep that shows up in nearly every nativity scene.
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Our first year we had a nativity contest with over 13 entries and this past year we had a #postapalooza with over a 1000 post in our stories.
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Though organized religion wasn't a part of Haring's adult life, he maintained a relationship with the church, gifting a 211 drawing of a nativity scene during his lifetime.
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He is unapologetic about favouring expressions of Roman Catholic identity, such as a Christmas nativity scene in the town hall, dismissing critics of such gestures as "leftist Islamophiles".
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And the early Christians, at least as much as modern pundits, certainly disputed among themselves about whether, how and precisely when to celebrate the Nativity of their Saviour.
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Two other suspects were still at large in South Africa, it said, while another three - two of whom were described as "of Indian nativity" - were outside the country.
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And for anyone worrying that this Nativity scene erases Mary and her role in history — after all, she did all the work in the traditional story — don't fret.
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Each year the monks choose a different theme for the nativity scene as part of what they call a "provocation" to underscore the need for peace, he said.
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In other parts of the African continent, such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, children often participate in church musicals or Nativity plays for Christmas, according to ONE.
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Almost all advertising and many shop windows today feature bright, red, bold Santas; Nativity scenes, with their soft pastel colors, have all but disappeared from the shopping streets.
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LONDON — A British bakery chain has apologized after creating a Nativity scene in which the baby Jesus, surrounded by three wise men, was replaced by a sausage roll.
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The Cathedral of the Nativity, adorned with Coptic icons, can accommodate more than 8,000 worshippers while the al-Fattah al-Aleem Mosque can hold nearly double the number.
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One scene in particular offers a gentle, unforced glow of humanity, a sort-of-Nativity that is the closest this movie gets to a feel-good holiday moment.
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In the courtyard of the 18th-century Palais Rohan, now a municipal museum, a life-size wooden crèche (nativity scene) has been installed, complete with real bleating sheep.
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"In the Claremont United Methodist Church nativity scene this Christmas, the Holy Family takes the place of the thousands of nameless families separated at our borders," Ristine added.
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If we want to imagine the Nativity, we needn't go farther than the tent of Alaa Adin from Syria, who left his home just days after he married.
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The nativity scenes, "Joy to the World," even Santa — we don't have saints in Judaism — are all reminders to us Jews that we aren't in the majority here.
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The centrality of family in Christmas imagery — the Nativity scene, portraits of the madonna and child — allows it to "translate" easily into a holiday centered around children and childhood.
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The company has created a hipster version of the classic nativity scene featuring a young Mary and Joseph taking a selfie with baby Jesus in a solar-paneled stable.
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Such is the case with this nativity scene from Indianapolis wherein Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus are put in a cage in a protest of Donald Trump's immigration policies.
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Juana's poetry is also featured in John Adams's 2000 nativity oratorio, "El Niño," nearly as teeming as "Theater of the World"; the two works share a frenetic, patchwork quality.
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For starters, Timberlake is wearing a pair of winged y-fronts that look as though they were crafted for a nativity where every part is performed by someone's crotch.
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This year, his presepio — an elaborate Nativity and village scene traditionally built by Italians during Christmastime — would contain a pond, a stream and a waterfall for the first time.
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A pedestrian road in this Italian city is famous for its handmade nativity scenes, but its visitors are as likely to encounter well-known soccer figures as biblical ones.
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If you pay for an elevator ride to the top of the Nativity or Passion towers, the walk down involves long, narrow spiral staircases that are an unexpected thrill.
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In the United States, groups opposed to nativity scenes in public places say they violate the first amendment of the Constitution, which prohibits the establishment of a state religion.
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Part movie, part dance performance, part bizarre Nativity play, "MA" is the kind of picture that rarely sees the outside — or even the main stage — of a film festival.
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Ms. Clark Ristine, 59, said the church had a history of using the Nativity scene "as a form of public witness" to bring attention and compassion to important issues.
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If it is not over a municipal nativity scene then it is about an attempt to ban a parent from accompanying a class trip while wearing the Muslim veil.
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Playing off the film, the puppet theater's nativity tale features silly foreign accents, particularly from the Three Wise Men, lots of jokes and slang often with a local flavor.
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Geal said the European tradition of puppet shows dates back to the Middle Ages when the church forbade people to perform nativity scenes themselves, prompting performers to use puppets.
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Pope Francis was walking through the square in Vatican City and greeting pilgrims on his way to see the large Nativity scene set up in the huge, cobbled esplanade.
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So it might seem a bit silly to focus on its dragons when its façades tell the entire nativity story of Christ's birth and passion with numerous sculptural scenes.
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He's clapping for his daughter in the nativity play, desperately holding back tears, and resigning himself to a life that he knows will hold little pleasure from here on out.
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This involves hay scattered on the floor (to evoke the nativity), wafers broken before the meal and 12 dishes including carp, herring, pierogi, mushrooms, beetroot soup and poppy-seed cake.
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There is a "legitimate secular purpose", she wrote, involving the "celebration of public holidays", and the nativity scene was drained of religious significance by the other items in its midst.
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One such defiant creature—Stormy the cow—decided to pursue her freedom over organized religion after fleeing from her spot next to Jesus in a church's live-animal nativity scene.
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The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is believed to be the birthplace of Jesus, and many visitors make reservations to celebrate mass at the sacred site on Christmas day.
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A little something extra The nativity scene at Saint Susanna Parish near Boston is unlike any kind you've ever seen because it makes a can't-miss statement about gun violence.
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Thanks to him, we now have a model for how to celebrate the Nativity while your former national security adviser pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I. Think about it.
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This year, thieves have raided Nativity scenes in Tennessee, West Virginia, Minnesota and plenty of other places, and made off with Jesus figurines (and sometimes Mary and a donkey, too).
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In Carroll Gardens, once the inflatable Santas and Nativity scenes go back into storage, a living facade of colorful leaves and evergreens — in an intriguing pattern — will continue to thrive.
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Milligan said she was checking out Christmas decorations on nearby homes when she saw the older Turpin children putting up a Nativity scene outside their house and complimented their decorations.
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"For us, this is a public nativity that you might call public art," she explained, adding that the outdoor display is highly visible to both cars and pedestrians passing by.
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Producers of the long-running game show "Jeopardy!" said Monday that an answer about where the Church of the Nativity is located was included in a recent taping in error.
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She and her son had finished putting up their Christmas decorations, when they noticed the three children across the street putting up a Nativity scene in front of their house.
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Ristine later spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the decision to portray the family in cages and denied that the Nativity scene was attempting to take a political stand.
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His last instructions to the flock were to "celebrate the Nativity..." Having obeyed that order, his community will now be mulling over his musings on freedom with more respect than ever.
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The editor of Die Welt, the voice of respectable German conservatism, made waves this Christmas by grumbling that Nativity sermons sounded little better than propaganda statements by young Socialists or Greens.
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First, sentimental songs about the winter holidays, touching to a greater or (usually) lesser degree on the Christian story of the Nativity, became an important common denominator for a diverse nation.
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So over the weekend, comedian Cameron Esposito posted this photo of her neighbor's "Joseph and Joseph" nativity scene, bringing peace and joy to the place that needs it the most — Twitter.
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Brandi Glanville got sued for claiming a "Real Housewives" star had a smelly vagina ... well she's got lotsa people saying she stinks like hell for mocking the Baby Jesus nativity scene.
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The first nativity scene was assembled by St. Francis in 114 in the small Italian town of Grecio to represent the Biblical story of Jesus' birth in a manger in Bethlehem.
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The caganer, which can be translated as pooper, is placed somewhere among the characters in a Nativity scene: behind Mary and Joseph, perhaps, or between the animals gathered around the manger.
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The nativity set my grandmother's best friend made for her in a backyard studio — each year a new camel or wise man or shepherd or donkey, till the set was complete.
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Just before Christmas, Ms. Bullock will appear in a chamber version of Mr. Adams's Nativity oratorio "El Niño," which will be performed at the Cloisters with the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo.
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Such sequences include a red-sock-wearing student rebellion that pays homage to the barricades of "Les Miserables" and a priceless reworking of the Nativity story for the school Christmas pageant.
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"In the Claremont United Methodist Church nativity scene this Christmas, the Holy Family takes the place of the thousands of nameless families separated at our borders," Ristine said in the post.
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In Pigeon Forge, it is the live Nativity show at the horse-themed Dixie Stampede dinner theater and the special seasonal "Christmas Disaster" version of the comic Hatfield & McCoy Dinner Show.
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It's no secret that people worship celebrities, so it was only a matter of time that some of the most notable names of 2016 got plopped into their very own Nativity scene.
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"It's another approach that allows us another way in to be inspired by an ageless, timeless story," Winfrey says of the film, which delivers a fun retelling of the nativity for kids.
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The lies about Obama, a Christian, and the Nativity scene recirculated around this same time last year, and similar claims were made nearly every year Obama was in office, according to Snopes.
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" Put Parker's pièce de résistance was her a towering headpiece that she told reporters is a nativity scene to scale, which directly honors the theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
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Sony Pictures Animation recently announced it would release an as-yet untitled Nativity movie in December 2017 that presents the story of Christ's birth from the perspective of animals in the manger.
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The thefts took a toll in West Bend, a city of about 30,000 residents, where churches are central to public life and longtime residents recall admiring the old Nativity set as children.
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I had been tasked with one job in the summer vacation after my first year at drama school — to learn to play the instrument for the school's tour of the Nativity play.
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In "California Art Collector," a matron, rendered in modern grisaille, occupies an armchair beneath a lean-to that echoes the manger in Piero Della Francesca's "Nativity" in the National Gallery in London.
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The pope traveled to the town of Greccio, east of Rome, to visit the spot where St. Francis of Assisi started the tradition by setting up the first nativity scene in 1223.
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There, it is expected to be placed inside Saint Catherine's Church, adjacent to the Church of the Nativity in Manger Square, in time for the lighting of the Christmas tree on Saturday.
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The minister's Facebook post has gone moderately viral, with thousands of comments praising or excoriating the church's choice to use their nativity to reflect on the current situation at the U.S. border.
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A child looks at sculptures of Jesus and Mary, depicted as refugees in cages, which form part of a Nativity scene at the Claremont United Methodist Church in Claremont, California, Dec. 9.
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Chief Justice Warren Burger, writing for the majority, explained the court had dealt with conflicts between religion and local government in recent cases, but the Nativity scene case didn't belong with them.
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A five-year-old girl starring as an angel in a school nativity play surprised parents by spending almost the entire performance standing with her two middle fingers raised to the audience.
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On Sunday night, the Grammy-winner, 42, presented his nativity-themed Opera "Mary," on a barge at outdoor Miami Marine Stadium to close out Art Basel — a huge art fair in Florida.
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The plays would dramatize various biblical stories, and starting in the late 15th century, local shearmen (who would shear wool from sheep) and tailors' guilds were responsible for putting on the nativity.
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Read on to see which stars went for traditional glamour (hi, Cindy Crawford!) and those who really embraced religious iconography (have you seen the nativity scene on top of Sarah Jessica Parker's head?).
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Stormy, a Philly native with four hooves, was one of the animals selected to serve in a live nativity scene at Old First Reformed United Church of Christ in the Old City neighborhood.
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Her Met Gala look earlier this year garnered a lot of attention, and not just because of her cathedral-inspired gown or the gilded nativity scene balancing precariously on top of her head.
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The cover photo is either the Greggs sausage roll nativity scene or a cartoon of some elves, onto which the various flatmates' faces have been inexpertly photoshopped using a free trial of Adobe.
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Maria Berrio (who, like Patterson, is an artist I've long wanted to write about since encountering her work years ago) sends the theme of ornamentation diving off a cliff with her "Nativity" (2014).
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ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - Franciscan monks have put the baby Jesus in a crib made of bullet shells in a yearly "provocation" nativity scene designed to draw attention to those suffering in the world.
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That same coalition of Southern Democrats and rural Republicans enacted race-based immigration laws in 28503 and 22019 that set quotas on immigrant admissions according to the nativity data from the 1890 census.
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A Parisian teenager (Victor Ezenfis) raised by a single mother (Natacha Régnier) learns that his father is a self-centered, famous publisher in this absurd take on the Nativity directed by Eugène Green.
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Christ Church Cathedral in Indianapolis displayed its nativity scene months earlier, in July, installing barbed wire above the fence that surrounded the holy family in protest of President Trump's zero tolerance immigration policy.
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There has also been a move toward the secular on the question of whether religiously themed holiday displays, like Nativity scenes, can be displayed on public property, like town halls and public schools.
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In 2014 in France, a court order to dismantle a nativity scene in a town hall because it violated the country's secular tradition prompted a backlash, which won support from right-wing politicians.
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Titled "A Nativity to Affirm the Humanity of All People," the statement thanks supporters and dissenters alike for their opinions and prayers and highlights the importance of the dialogue sparked by the display.
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One of Caravaggio's most celebrated works, the "Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence," was, in fact, stolen by the Mob from a chapel in Palermo, the Oratory of San Lorenzo, in 1969.
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Meanwhile, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq raged, troops were consistently underfunded and, within a few years, Christmas trees and nativity scenes on America's front lawns would be joined by countless foreclosure signs.
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Grandma, you see, had this beloved crèche, but it wasn't the kind of miniature tableau that enabled the entire sprawling cast of the Nativity to fit on an end table or a bureau.
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According to Marino Niola, an anthropologist at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples who wrote a book in 2005 called "Il Presepe," the nativity scene tradition experienced a dip in popularity after World War II. Niola said it was no coincidence then that the nativity scene — which he called "a ritualistic toy to play a metaphysical game" — started making a comeback in the mid-1990s, once artisans on Via San Gregorio Armeno began introducing pop culture figures to their inventory of statuettes.
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A tree adorned with lights outside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe Jesus was born, and another in Ramallah, next to the grave of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, were plunged into darkness.
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During the Second Intifada in 2002, a group of poorly equipped Palestinian combatants found refuge in one the holiest sites in the world: the Church of the Nativity, traditionally considered the birthplace of Jesus.
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In Lynch v Donnelly, Justice O'Connor argued that a reasonable observer wouldn't gaze upon a nativity scene abutting a Christmas tree and a "Seasons Greetings" banner and conclude that a city had endorsed Christianity.
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At the end of the service, Francis walked across St. Peter's Square, stopping to shake hands and pose for pictures, as he paid a brief visit to the life-size nativity set up outside.
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While Prince William and Kate Middleton visited BBC's Bridge House in Media City, Salford, on Wednesday, the proud father revealed that the 4-year-old royal took part in his school's Christmas nativity play.
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Last year, a display included in the nativity scene had 16 signs, each one inscribed with a different mass shooting that took place in America and listing how many people were killed at each.
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And in Naples, where the Nativity scenes we call presepi have been a form of art since the 18th century and artisans every year come up with new figurines, taking inspiration from current affairs.
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Such a small scale may sound nothing like "El Niño," a sweeping, nearly two-hour Nativity oratorio written for vocal soloists, a trio of countertenors, a full orchestra and choir, and a children's chorus.
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Ibrahim Skakiyeh, 28, a father of two from Ramallah, was out hawking red Santa hats and selfie sticks in Manger Square, near the Church of the Nativity, venerated as the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
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Nobody is sure what happened to the "Nativity" canvas, although the favored local story is that it was rolled up and stashed in a Sicilian barn, where it was destroyed by rats and pigs.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Brussels puppet theater as old as Belgium itself is staging its Christmas nativity show this year with a dash of Monty Python humor added to the traditional story of Jesus's birth.
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As we walked toward the Church of the Nativity, which was built over the cave where Jesus is said to have been born, Odeh pulled me aside and began to talk about the city.
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But despite these contentious questions hanging over the holiday, Christmas preparations moved forward in much of the country, with vendors reporting brisk sales of Christmas-themed gift baskets, stuffed Santas and miniature Nativity scenes.
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I thought the nativity would be a chapter onto itself, but within a few short pages, Jesus is already being baptized by John, and then on to the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes.
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The nativity scenes will be open to the general public for six days, starting on December 25, and organizers expect some 17,000 visitors from all over the world to come and enjoy the unique spectacle.
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The creators of this boycott dubbed Sweet Jesus' branding "blasphemous," and complained about an alleged picture on the company's website that shows a cup of ice cream in place of Jesus in a Nativity Scene.
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In 2014, they unveiled a replica of Caravaggio's Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence where the original painting once stood, before it was stolen in 1969 from the Oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo.
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The acting Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, led an annual procession from Jerusalem to Bethlehem and will later celebrate Midnight Mass in the Church of the Nativity, originally built in the 4th century.
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Without a gig for Christmas Eve, the pair go on the drive, where they find themselves saving a nativity party, surviving a snowstorm, and performing onstage in Nashville with a celebrity singer (played by Osmond).
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"If you want to go full-on Charles Dickens Victorian Christmas, play religious music 24/7, put a Nativity scene in your front lawn, go to church, midnight Mass — more power to you," Boston said.
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At the other end of the scale, kids who played a sheep or lamb in the school nativity made less than half of the former oxen's average income in later years, earning an average £0003,2000.
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Toward the video&aposs end, Jenner appears again, still gilded and glowing, but this time outfitted in a transparent, bejeweled gown and cradling a lamb in a dismantled manger, the imagery evoking a nativity scene.
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Many Roldán sculptures also allowed for audience participation through detached figures that could be moved and arranged by audiences, thus offering a blueprint for the hugely popular Neapolitan crèches and, centuries later, Fontanini Nativity sets.
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Other sacred sites across the Holy Land have ordered similar precautions, including the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth and in Bethlehem, revered as Jesus's birthplace, the Church of the Nativity has shut down entirely.
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Still, they are revered by the Christian faithful, among them the many pilgrims who squeeze through a narrow sandstone entrance in the Church of the Nativity to visit the birth grotto that is its centerpiece.
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In Harriet, Kasi Lemmons (Eve's Bayou, Black Nativity) directs Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman, the escaped slave who became one of the most significant figures in leading the enslaved to freedom during the Civil War.
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"But Ms Bovingdon has said she had to warn her daughter not to repeat her middle finger-flashing antics for a second performance of the nativity play as it "wouldn&apost be funny this time.
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A Methodist church in California is becoming the talk of the town after they recently criticized the Trump administration by setting up a nativity scene that portrayed Jesus, Mary and Joseph as refugees inside cages.
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The main attractions in Bethlehem are the 4th-century Church of the Nativity, built over a grotto where Christian tradition says Jesus was born, and the 16-metre (52-foot) Christmas tree in Manger Square.
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With Bethlehem's illuminated Christmas tree behind them, about 30 people stood quietly holding candles at Manger Square next to the Church of the Nativity, the site Christians believe marks Jesus's birthplace, before setting the placards alight.
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Carols at St. Patrick's Cathedral are an annual Christmas highlight, as is the Moving Crib at St. Martin Apostolate's, a "nativity tableaux told through handcrafted moving figures" that has been around for more than 236 years.
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An Indianapolis church even went viral for an art piece depicting Nativity figures of the Holy Family trapped in a cage meant to evoke the fenced-in areas in which migrant children are currently being kept.
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Those of us, religious believers or not, who understand the profound meaning of the nativity must fight on behalf of wonder and in the service of a future society that places wonder at its very center.
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Nativity scenes depict the birth of Jesus as Christians believe it took place - the baby and his mother posed in a humble stable setting with animals and shepherds, and kings bearing gifts who arrived days later.
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ROME — Pope Francis apologized on Wednesday for the flash of anger — or self-protection — that he exhibited while greeting the faithful around the Vatican's giant Nativity scene after a New Year's Eve liturgy the evening before.
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In the process of taping this clue, "BUILT IN THE 300s A.D., THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY" we became aware that the clue was flawed as written and that determining an acceptable response would be problematic.
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Donnelly (1984), the court considered if the First Amendment's Establishment Clause prohibited Pawtucket, Rhode Island from including a Nativity scene in a Christmas holiday display that also had Santa with his reindeer and a Christmas tree.
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Critic's Pick The Radio City Christmas pageant feels immutable: Why change the winning combination of Santa Claus, the Rockettes, the Living Nativity and Yuletide megamixes that packs the Art Deco palace for several weeks each year?
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Mr. Buntrock also directed the new finale, "Christmas Lights," which closes the show after the Nativity procession — exit, pursued by a camel, Shakespeare might have quipped had he been sipping from a goblet at Radio City.
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Whether it's pro-immigration pastors locking the baby Jesus in a cage to protest our border policies or a traditional cis white heteronormative nativity, everyone across the political spectrum has the opportunity to be offended this season.
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It took in thousands of Lebanese fleeing civil war in the 1970s and successfully mediated an end to a 39-day siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem between Israeli forces and suspected Palestinian militants.
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Four blocks over, at 2150 Topping Street, the studs are still bare, the floor is a maze of plywood and an old chair is piled with unwanted paintings and a lonely wise man from a Nativity set.
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Copts, the largest Christian minority in the Middle East, were due hold a midnight mass in the Cathedral of the Nativity, billed by the government as the Middle East's largest church, a few hours after the inauguration.
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Claremont United Methodist Church transformed its Christmas nativity scene into a powerful statement about family separation by caging their figures of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph and releasing a theological statement on the United States' treatment of refugees.
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Julia Bullock's residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has already garnered resounding praise for its consummate artistry and its social conscience, and its high standards ought to continue in these performances of John Adams's Nativity oratorio.
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In Bethlehem — where the Abbas-Pence meeting had been scheduled to take place, according to Palestinian officials — banners that read "Bethlehem refuses US vice president's visit," now hang over Manger Square, near the Church of the Nativity.
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Tana Benson, the child's mother, said little Teegan is "obsessed" with baby Jesus and just couldn't help herself when she and a group of tots performed a Nativity scene at First Baptist White Pine Church earlier this month.
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And although the circumstances of Jesus's birth are from a secular point of view utterly impossible to ascertain, the association of Bethlehem with the Nativity is as old as anything we know about Christian pilgrimage and sacred geography.
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LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - One of the world's largest limestone caves, the Postojna Cave in western Slovenia, is a long way from a stable in Bethlehem, but its traditional living nativity is getting more than shepherds and wise men visiting.
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Last year, she arrived on the carpet in a metallic three-quarter-length-sleeve Dolce & Gabbana gown with a long matching train and nativity scene crown (the theme was, after all, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination").
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It's that time of year once more: time to don the holiday sweaters, pour a hot chocolate, gather the family and stare at a computer screen scrolling through the best viral nativity scenes the internet has to offer.
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The movie, which debuted earlier this year at Sundance, follows Bo (Black Nativity star Jacob Latimore), a gifted Los Angeles street magician who uses a powerful electromagnetic device to do levitation tricks as a way of getting by.
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And so far it seems like his neighbors have been pretty receptive to the whole thing, unlike the folks who completely freaked out about that guy who set up a zombie nativity scene in his lawn for Christmas.
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The cutout-looking lion at the saint's feet and the temple or church, which could be the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem, at the bottom of the light patch on the right, are also rendered as drawings.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Less than an hour after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Palestinians protested by turning off the lights on the Christmas tree outside Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
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In thinking about the meaning of the nativity today, I find its most potent and radical message to be one not just of wonder, but of wonder as means of approaching difference, of experiencing and understanding the Other.
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"We need a real Santa Claus to come and take all the Lebanese away," said Mohamed Ibrahim, a young electrician who was taking a selfie with his new wife, Taghrid Ibrahim, in front of the mall's nativity scene.
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True to the retired schoolteacher he is, Mr. Zahs waxes on about nativity scenes, cemeteries and that old farm equipment just as heartily as he does about long-lost silent movies and the technology used to show them.
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ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Sunday defended the display of nativity scenes in town squares and other public places, which has become an annual contentious issue at Christmas time in countries such as the United States and France.
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Its nativity scene presents the figurines of Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in individual metal cages evoking the chain-link pens infamously utilized by the Trump administration to imprison children in detention facilities at the US-Mexico border.
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Pretty much everyone at Sporting knows the tale, which is now part of the club's folklore; pretty much everyone tells it in the same way, with a cadence and cast of characters seemingly straight out of the Nativity.
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IN BOTH Ukraine and Russia, where most Christians follow the old calendar and therefore celebrate the Nativity of Christ on January 7th, this was a Christmas like no other, whether for ordinary folk or for the high and mighty.
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Temperatures fell to minus 8 degrees Celsius (17F) in Prague where Czech swimmers swam under the Charles Bridge to mark the day, while men dressed as the three kings rode on horseback in a reenactment of the nativity scene.
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"There's a scene where they're up onstage performing the Nativity play, and he's got a Spider-Man mask on, and there's a big close-up of a very perplexed-looking 5-year-old," Curtis revealed to The Daily Beast.
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For those that have wondered what it would be like if Jesus was born in 2016 or what a modern day wise man would look like — hint: he wears skinny jeans — the folks at Modern Nativity have the answer.
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Roslyn Litman, a tenacious civil liberties advocate whose groundbreaking court victories included the removal of a holiday Nativity display from a public courthouse and an antitrust judgment against professional basketball for blackballing a player, died on Tuesday in Pittsburgh.
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Here was what one might call the other Russia, a local effort to raise funds in pursuit of the somewhat quixotic task of renovating the Church of the Nativity, once the place of worship attached to an aristocratic estate.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a 30-day state of emergency on Thursday and Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was closed following the discovery of seven cases of coronavirus in the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
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On Sunday afternoon at Corpus Christi Church in Morningside Heights, the French early-music group Ensemble Correspondances presented a program of Advent and Nativity-theme works by Charpentier that was full of sensual freshness — with occasional stabs of melancholy.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a 30-day state of emergency on Thursday and Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity was closed following the discovery of seven cases of coronavirus in the traditional birthplace of Jesus.
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Still, they are revered by the Christian faithful, among them the coachloads of pilgrims who squeeze through a narrow sandstone entrance in the Church of the Nativity all year round to visit the birth grotto that is its centrepiece.
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And yet, as the historian Alexander Keyssar notes in "The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States," Shellabarger's amendment would essentially have ended "property, tax, nativity and literacy requirements" in addition to racial discrimination.
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Claremont United Methodist Church&aposs nativity shows Joseph, Mary, and baby Jesus held in separate cages, a clear reference to the thousands of migrant children who were separated from their parents at the US border under President Donald Trump.
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Children dressed as Santa Claus sang carols and rang bells during a Christmas-themed show at the College des Freres, which sits in the biblical city's central market where holiday decorations and wooden nativity scenes line the narrow alleys.
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On Tuesday - Christmas Eve - the acting Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, will lead a procession from Jerusalem to nearby Bethlehem and later celebrate Midnight Mass in the Church of the Nativity, squeezing through its narrow sandstone entrance.
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Salman said the relics were taken from Bethlehem around 1,000 years ago, and are now likely to be placed inside Saint Catherine's Church, adjacent to the Church of the Nativity in Manger Square, the reputed site of Jesus's birth.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A topless activist from the feminist group Femen tried to snatch the statue of the baby Jesus from the Nativity scene in St. Peter's Square on Monday but was stopped by police as she grabbed it.
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It's not a nativity without a huge stunner of a dog Available as an ornament on Zazzle for $18.95, these images made by retired lesbian pastor Kitteridge Cherry caused a highly conservative Christian campaign group to accuse her of blasphemy.
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The Kienholzes are much more inventive in other works that lack the chaser of fury, such as "The nativity" (1961) that uses the most ordinary materials like shovels, plant hangers, lamps, and emergency lights to make a convincing Christmas scene.
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The test comes from another clause in the First Amendment—the establishment clause—and asks whether a reasonable observer would interpret a certain religious display (the Ten Commandments, for example, or a nativity scene) as a government endorsement of religion.
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As First Lady Melania Trump unveiled this year's White House Christmas decorations on Twitter Monday morning, some of her followers celebrated by reigniting previously debunked rumors that former President Barack Obama banned Nativity scenes from the White House last year.
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"We have these little boxes that have a piece of the Nativity scene and every day you open [one] up, and Emilie had written the numbers down on the pieces of paper that we used to wrap the boxes," Parker says.
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But Archpriest Anatoliy, the senior priest at the Cathedral of the Nativity, saw the raid as a hostile act in a theological battle between Ukraine's two main Orthodox factions that is part of a broader political conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
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Harnessing the rhythms of the sitcom and the tropes of the season — there's even a pitch-black evocation of the Nativity — Mr. Kevorkian casts a wide social-satire net, massaging the link between generational abuse and blind obedience to authority.
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Because what the nativity story conveys is a narrative of wonder threaded through prosaic reality, where the birth of a child is an act of God's self-creation, where a manger can be the site of the universe's new genesis.
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Within the next hour, they would witness a production that used the Beatles's oeuvre to tell the story of the three kings who visited the baby Christ, a kind of mash-up of "Across the Universe" and the nativity story.
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PALERMO, Sicily — On a stormy night in October 1969, thieves broke into the Oratory of San Lorenzo, a small chapel in what was then Palermo's dilapidated Kalsa quarter, and made off with one of the city's artistic masterpieces: Caravaggio's "Nativity" altarpiece.
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"That's the goal," he said in an interview this month in Emilia-Romagna after a long day of posing for selfies and campaigning in front of a floating Nativity scene, and dictating, quite literally, the day's news cycle to reporters.
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In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing nativity scenes in public places, saying that they were not an effort to establish or support a particular religion and also possessed what the court called "legitimate secular purposes".
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What in the World Italians have been erecting Nativity scenes for a very long time: St. Francis of Assisi is credited with setting up the first one on Christmas Eve in 1223, in the town of Greccio, north of Rome.
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