Some farmers have extra reason to rejoice at Christmas: Tis the season for renting out animals for live Nativity scenes and other holiday events. Growing up in rural Burlington, Wisconsin, one of ...

The Christmas llama was named Rocky and he had a large, crooked under-bite. With black, soulful eyes that matched his coat, the creature had green boughs adorned with ornaments wrapped around his long ...

Hundreds of people have gathered in a Coventry church to watch a nativity play with real animals among the stars. A camel, ...

They don't have lines of dialogue, but they are a vital part of the show. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints puts on a live Nativity each year, and sheep, burros, horses and goats are ...

Staff and animals at a visitor farm and zoo have performed a Nativity play to raise funds for a local church. Andy Johnson, of Johnsons of Old Hurst in Cambridgeshire, said he wanted people to ...

Live nativity scenes, those visual representations of Jesus Christ’s humble entry into the world, can be fairly simple, stress-free affairs. Get an infant to serve as Jesus and adults or children to ...

For some people, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas until you’ve seen a Living Nativity, complete with live animals and actors portraying Joseph, Mary and the wise men adoring the baby Jesus. But ...

So we're definitely not using animals." Jackie Vergerio, PETA's captive animals in entertainment specialist, said her organization tracks churches nationwide that use real animals in "living nativity ...

Visit a live nNativity in West Tennessee, and chances are you’ll see a camel, a donkey and some sheep, all from Hooker Farms in Milan. The animals travel everywhere from Memphis to Nashville to Tupelo ...

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has started construction on its annual Nativity set in St. Peter’s Square, and the display is expected to include a few animals that may not have been at Jesus’ birth. The ...

A resident says the church used live animals in its nativity scene on Dec. 3rd exposing them to possible harm in the freezing temperatures.