VATICAN CITY (RNS) — After receiving backlash from Jewish groups, the Vatican chose to not put the keffiyeh back in its ...

A stature of the Baby Jesus has returned to the Vatican's 'presepe', or Nativity Scene, in the Saint Paul VI Hall, but not ...

Jesus Christ displayed on a Palestinian Keffiyeh scarf gifted by the Palestinian Higher Committee of Churches Affairs, as part of the "Nativity of Bethlehem 2024" during its inauguration in the ...

The wooden Nativity scene in the Vatican’s main audience hall had generated headlines when it was unveiled Dec. 7 because of the presence of the keffiyeh, the black-and-white checkered headscarf that ...

especially since the scarf has long been a symbol of Palestinian revolts and hatred toward Israel. “It came about in a spontaneous way, actually, because we learned that the child baby Jesus has to be ...

The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus was devastated by the Syrian civil war. The scene of violent clashes ...

Robby Soave and Niall Stanage weigh in on the Pope Francis' unveiling of a nativity scene in which Baby Jesus is adorned in a ...

During the reign of the Ottoman Empire, the fez, or tarboosh, was more commonly worn by the urban educated elite, the effendi ...

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Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Francis prays in front of a Nativity Scene crafted in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, as he arrives ...

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After the display raised a few eyebrows, the Vatican appears to have removed a Nativity scene that showed baby Jesus lying on a keffiyeh, the traditional scarf used as a national symbol by ...