For those who celebrate Christmas, the nativity scene holds a special significance, particularly during the holiday season. In the Christian tradition, the familiar manger scene depicts the birth of ...

What are the best Nativity sets? For many people, Christmas means trimming trees, giving gifts and decorating their home and yard. Santas, reindeer and snowmen are always popular themes, but a ...

Because the religious aspect of Christmas is most important to Diane (Dee) Evans, the small nativity set she’s had since she was a child is placed in a special place at her Oak Creek condo for the ...

For many Christians around the world, celebrating the Nativity, or the birth of Jesus Christ, is the most important part of the Christmas season. A handmade Nativity from Kyrgyzstan by an unknown ...

Using toothpicks and sewing needles, Karen Loccisano sculps tiny figurines into a beaming Baby Jesus, his mother, Mary, and her husband, Joseph. Michael Palan meanwhile creates detailed shelters where ...

Visitors often ask when planning begins for each year’s Christmas exhibit. Answer: almost immediately after the current exhibit ends. Scroll through the year to find out more about what happens behind ...

Although it would be pure speculation from a distance — a span of over 2,000 years — it might be reasonable to guess that in a tiny hamlet called Bethlehem, in the stable of a humble inn, things ...