'Beckham Nativity' Tableau Outrages Churches
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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 protester has attacked a controversial  waxwork nativity scene featuring England soccer captain David  Beckham as Joseph and his pop star wife "Posh Spice" Victoria  as the Virgin Mary.
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Description: Influential leaders of the Anglican Communion sharply criticize the US Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop.
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Church leaders in England have united to condemn a nativity scene hosted by the Tussaud&#39;s waxwork museum depicting the waxen likeness of David Beckham and Posh Spice as Joseph and the Virgin Mary.
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An Italian school's substitution of a  Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood so as not to offend  Muslim children has raised the Vatican's ire and sparked debate  on how much traditions should change to accommodate immigrants.
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LONDON -- A leader of African Anglicans who have been outraged by the appointment of a gay bishop in the United States blasted a church report on the dispute, saying yesterday that it should have pushed for US Episcopalians to repent.
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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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The Archbishop of Canterbury's Sharia law comments attract criticism from senior Anglicans.
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Some argue he is treated almost as a deity anyway, but a tourist attraction has now taken David Beckham's status to new extremes by casting him in a Christmas nativity scene as Joseph, the father of Jesus.
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The leader of the world's Anglicans slammed "human greed" in his Christmas sermon, saying it threatened the Earth's fragile environmental balance.
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Christian leaders 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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Ex-footballers and newspapers thrashed out Friday whether David Beckham should be knighted, mirroring a reported row among officials.
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LONDON - 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.  The waxwork tableau at Madame Tussauds museum included U.S. President George W.
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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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A controversial waxwork nativity scene starring Britain's celebrity couple David and Victoria Beckham, as holy couple Mary and Joseph, has been mauled in an attack, the Madame Tussaud's museum said.
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LONDON - An Anglican church commission on Monday sharply criticized the U.S. Episcopal Church for consecrating a gay bishop and called on the church to apologize and refrain from promoting any other clergy living in a same-sex union...
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CHRISTMAS, the season designed to celebrate the traditions which unite us, has instead become the Richter scale on which we measure the schisms which divide us.