Celebrity Nativity Scene Draws Ire in U.K.
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Christian leaders on Wednesday denounced a Nativity scene at a London wax museum featuring soccer star David Beckham and his wife Victoria, a former Spice Girl, as the parents of Jesus.
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Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor has attacked a Christmas Nativity scene in which soccer player David Beckham appears as Joseph with his wife, former Spice Girl Victoria, as the Virgin Mary.
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The controversial waxwork nativity scene portraying David Beckham and his wife, ex-Spice Girl Victoria as Joseph and Virgin Mary, criticized by Church leaders as disrespectful, has become subject to vandalism.
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Britain&#39;s &quot;alternative royal family&quot; -- Victoria and David Beckham -- hosted a lavish but much-derided Christmas party on Thursday to christen their sons in the grounds of their &quot;Beckingham Palace&quot; home.
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When a church group put a nativity scene on public property, officials warned it might open the door to other religious &#151; and not-so-religious &#151; displays. They were right.
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Comment is free: Richard Coles: Whether poor in Lincolnshire or rich in London, the true message of Christmas still rings out
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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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A section of the media which has no access to particular stars is playing a strange and damaging game of  celeb-bashing.
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Queen Elizabeth has called for tolerance between different cultural and religious groups in her Christmas address to the nation. &quot;Religion and culture are much in the news these days, usually
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LONDON - Queen Elizabeth urged people to set aside cultural and religious differences, as she delivered her annual Christmas Day message on Saturday.
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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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For even a performer who courts controversy, Madonna's upcoming concert in Moscow has drawn considerable uproar.
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Christian protesters set fire to their  television licenses outside the BBC's London offices on Friday  as outrage spread over the public broadcaster's plans to air a  profanity-laden musical.
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Moviegoers seeking a bit of seasonal  entertainment are being offered blood and terror alongside  Santa and his reindeer -- much to the horror of U.S. religious  groups.
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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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Members of rival Christian orders trade blows at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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A riotously profane picture of a village fete by Pieter Brueghel the Younger that has not been seen in public for 70 years goes under the hammer in London next week.