A Quad Cities church celebrates Christmas Eve with a special display. Christ United Methodist Church, 3801 7th St., in East Moline, has a live Nativity scene.

In Victorian days, Rice said, Bethlehem’s residents would “go putzing” — visiting each other’s homes between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day to look at Nativity scenes. In 1937 ...

This year, the church’s Christmas Eve services Saturday ... and let’s celebrate the Nativity of our Lord.’ ” Urban noted that his diocese of the American Carpatho- Russian Orthodox ...

On Christmas Eve in 1223, in cave near the cliffside village of Greccio in Italy, St Francis of Assisi created what's thought to be the first nativity scene. It was staged for the local villagers ...

VATICAN CHRISTMAS: The Vatican illuminated this year's Christmas tree and unveiled the nativity scene for the holiday season on Saturday (12/7). The 95-foot-tall red spruce hails from a forest in ...

The story of Jesus's birth (also known as the nativity) is often retold by children ... as candlelit services and midnight masses on Christmas Eve. The wise men brought Jesus gifts of gold ...