The scene in St. Peter’s Square depicts not only Mary and Joseph standing beside the manger, but also St. Francis of Assisi, who organized the first Nativity scene in a cave in the Italian ...

Outrage exploded online after Pope Francis inaugurated a nativity scene, designed by two artists from Bethlehem and featuring a keffiyeh wrapped around Jesus’s manger, in St. Peter’s Square on ...

CBS News Since 1995, the library has presented an annual Nativity exhibit – from a mariachi manger and a stable made of bread, to more traditional scenes, and the abstract.

The Christmas 2023 Nativity scene at the Vatican will evoke the first-ever live manger, which was created by St. Francis of Assisi in Italy in the 1200s, the Vatican said Monday.

Today, the famous manger scene that decorates homes, churches and cities around the world is hardly an accurate depiction of what happened in that humble stall in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago.