'Nativity' booted from Ill. holiday fair
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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 vandal has knocked over a controversial waxwork nativity scene which portrays David Beckham as Joseph and his wife Victoria as the Virgin Mary.
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Thousands of passengers were stranded across the country on Christmas, and many others arrived without suitcases full of gifts as USAirways and Comair struggled with computer, staffing problems.
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Frankfurt, November 27: Once upon a time, Germany's Christkind darted from house to house with traditional wooden toys for children on Christmas Eve.
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A sloppy storm dumped more than a year&#39;s worth of snow on parts of the Midwest and made a mess of holiday travel and last-minute Christmas shopping Thursday.
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The 450-a-head trip, however, ended in a near riot, with furious parents demanding a refund and children in tears when told that Santa was too busy to see them.
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There is an interesting new twist in the age-old "We poor Christians are being attacked!" movement this year: The "keep Christ in Christmas" movement, attracting wannabe-martyrs from churches including  Catholic to Methodist ; Baptists, strangely enough, seem divided on the issue. Some others are threatening to boycott Macy's if they do not replace "Happy Holidays" signs with "Merry Christmas" ones. No information is available from Macy's website about whether the Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hannukah, or Saturnalia signs will be replaced.
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Israel freed up travel into Bethlehem on Christmas Eve and handed out candy to Palestinian and foreign pilgrims at roadblocks, the latest signs of warming Israeli
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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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It used to be that many Americans would deplore the commercialization of the Christmas holidays (or, originally, âholy daysâ).
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Things got hairy for parody singer "Weird Al" Yankovic as a flock of unwanted fans rushed onstage during his performance at a state fair in southern Illinois.
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BARTOW, Fla. - When a church group put a nativity scene on public property, officials warned it might open the door to other religious - and not-so-religious - displays. They were right.
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VIENNA, Austria (AP &#151; St. Nick, nein! A ban on St. Nicholas at Vienna's kindergartens is taking some of the ho-ho-ho out of the holidays for tens of thousands of tots this year. And it's creating a political ruckus, with opposition parties accusing City Hall of kowtowing to a growing Muslim population by showing Europe's Santa the kindergarten door.
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Church leaders condemned on Wednesday a  Christmas nativity tableau depicting English soccer star David  Beckham as Joseph and his pop singer wife Victoria as the  Virgin Mary.
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A nativity scene featuring David Beckham and his wife Victoria has been vandalised in a frenzied attack. The couple featured in a Madame Tussauds Christmas nativity display that attracted widespread controversy when it was unveiled last month.
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LOS ANGELES  - Barely a creature was  stirring in primetime on Christmas Eve. And on Christmas night,  more Americans were inclined to watch the Von Trapp family flee  the Nazis than revisit George Bailey's classic holiday season  meltdown.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 21 -- Even by the hard-bitten standard of the livelihood they chose, it was a cruel time and place to be lost at sea, tossed in the heaving, frigid swells, a few days before Christmas.