Man Damages Controversial Nativity Scene
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A waxwork nativity scene that features soccer star David Beckham and his pop star wife, Victoria, as the parents of Jesus has been damaged in an attack, Madame Tussauds museum said Monday.
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A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says. Officials have asked organizers of a downtown Christmas festival, the German Christkindlmarket, to reconsider using a movie studio as a sponsor because it is worried ads for its film "The Nativity Story" might offend non-Christians.
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A policeman has damaged a 19th century painting belonging to Queen Elizabeth II after losing his balance while closing a window, police and Buckingham Palace sources revealed.
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LONDON -- Madame Tussaud&#39;s Wax Museum in London has unveiled a new nativity display that is causing a lot of controversy. In the display, Mary is former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, who is pregnant with her third child.
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In a Madonna concert that includes a crucifixion scene and the exclusion of religious references from ÂVeggieTales,Â critics see a double standard.
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A man who destroyed a nativity scene featuring waxworks of David and Victoria Beckham is conditionally discharged by a court.
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Church leaders united Wednesday to condemn a Christmas nativity tableau depicting soccer star David Beckham as Joseph and his pop singer wife Victoria as the Virgin Mary.
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An investigation starts into the collapse of seating at a religious festival that injured more than a dozen people.
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Members of a Roman Catholic parish are angry that a priest known to have indecently assaulted a boy was moved there.
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Man City's Joey Barton is in trouble after an incident at the club's Christmas party.
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At least 20 Egyptian policemen were injured after a group of 1,000 Christians staging a sit-in at the compound of the main Coptic cathedral in Cairo threw rocks at them, an AFP journalist said.
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A half-finished painting in a Greek Orthodox church of Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin cutting off the beard of a Christian saint has offended traditionalists who want the revolutionary painted over.
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After years of legal assaults on municipal displays of Nativity scenes and observances in public schools, Christian groups are mounting court challenges in the other direction.
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JERUSALEM: A forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artefacts was cracked yesterday. Police said the ring forged what were presented as perhaps the
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Around 30 people were injured when a grandstand collapsed during a religious festival in northeast England, police said.
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A carnival ride broke apart during a church fair Sunday, injuring three people, one of them seriously, authorities said.
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A dig by a bishop about people who festoon their homes with Christmas lights may have touched a nerve with a grander member of his congregation - the Queen