nativity

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The question, as usual, is whether people are too busy celebrating the story of the nativity to make room at the inn.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025

Geyer, who identifies as a practising Catholic, insisted that the idea of breaking with tradition was "far from our minds" when fashioning the nativity.

From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025

"The resources for the nativity play never arrived," she said.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2025

Instead of having a candy-filled calendar, some Latino families will create an extended nativity scene at the beginning of Advent with the wise men placed far away in the room, González-Andrieu said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2024

Christmas Eve, along with the rest of the de la Torre children, I was taken to the National Cathedral for the nativity pageant where the new creche was to be unveiled.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez