some churches are replacing the baby Jesus’s traditional swaddling blanket with the black-and-white scarf — which has become a symbol of pro-Palestine activism. The manger used as a crib ...

Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest as a black baby born to a black virgin with indigenous cherubs looking on.

The toddler, who had been singing the songs and talking about Baby Jesus in the car for weeks, according to her mom, was determined to get her hands on the doll in ... "Away in a Manger" without ...