Every year we set up a traditional manger scene near our Christmas tree. There are Mary and Joseph, a shepherd and a few sheep, three wise men and at least one camel, and the baby Jesus.

Next year, we will again pull the baby Jesus out of the basement. He will still be in the manger; Mary and Joseph will still be right there next to him; the shepherd will still be bringing his ...

Mary and Joseph are distraught." The post also asks the would-be kidnappers of the Baby Jesus to bring him back safely to his manger - preferably in one piece. The post adds: "Please would the ...

The rest of the children continued to sing "Away in a Manger" without missing ... the little girl playing Mary said, 'She touched the baby Jesus! We weren't supposed to touch the baby Jesus!' ...

I begin to unwrap the pieces one at a time – Mary, Joseph, kings, camels, horse, donkey, cattle and sheep. The last piece is the manger with baby Jesus Christ carved inside – a one-of-a-kind ...

For two-year-old Emilia Wadgymar, the real stars of the season are the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus. "We went to a place [where] a Christmas village train was set up," the child's mother ...

When Ellison first visited Bethlehem, he wanted to glimpse “the manger ... of the newborn Jesus. These holy sites “draw Christians as a presence of a positive future, like Mary in Bethlehem ...

“The baby awakes / But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.” Countless paintings hang in museums showing the manger scene as peaceful, with Mary gazing beatifically at her calm, still bab ...

COMPLETE WITH MARY, JOSEPH AND THE WISE MEN. BUT RIGHT NOW, THERE’S SOMEONE IMPORTANT MISSING. WE KNOW BY SUNDAY MORNING, HE WAS GONE. BABY JESUS WAS STOLEN FROM THE MANGER SOMETIME OVER THE ...

That into this culture would one day come a savior who was not a superhero springing fully formed out of Caesar’s head, but two commoners’ baby born in a manger follows as the night the day.