From a tender age, we recognise nativity images: the newborn Christ-child in a manger, Mary, Joseph, the ox and the ass, the shepherds, the Magi, the angels, the star. We are so familiar with the ...

Shepherds in Christmas Nativity scenes that were painted, carved or sculpted hundreds of years ago sometimes have throats with large, abnormal growths. These are realistic depictions of goiter ...

Every December, the First United Methodist Church of Johnson City, Texas, stages an extravagant living Nativity story ... the angels giving word to the shepherds." While costumed children and ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - Live goats, sheep, maybe even an ornery donkey or two will join angels, shepherds, wise men and the Holy Family for the 29 th annual Living Nativity at Cornerstone Community ...

Of the Gospels’ Nativity stories, Matthew’s “mysterious ‘wisemen’ from the East caught popular Christian fancy earlier and more often that Luke’s rather pedestrian shepherd-visitors ...

Members of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Kingwood perform a Live Nativity for guests on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Members of Good Shepherd Episcopal Church in Kingwood perform a Live Nativity ...