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 ...

The Nativity scene was crafted by artists from Bethlehem ... told RNS that Palestinian officials had placed the keffiyeh, a black and white checkered scarf that has come to symbolize the ...

Nativity scenes around the world have added ... the baby Jesus’s traditional swaddling blanket with the black-and-white scarf — which has become a symbol of pro-Palestine activism.

Instead of a manger in Bethlehem, Jesus will arrive this Christmas in a badly burned clearing in the Amazon rainforest as a black baby ... symbolically charged nativity scene is already turning ...