Some farmers have extra reason to rejoice at Christmas: Tis the season for renting out animals for live Nativity scenes and other holiday events. Growing up in rural Burlington, Wisconsin, one of ...

But he doesn't do it with a rod and staff. Hayden is the animal facilitator who arranges, by phone, for the mini-herd to be delivered from farms as far as 50 minutes away to the nativity scene on the ...

For some people, it just doesn’t feel like Christmas until you’ve seen a Living Nativity, complete with live animals and actors portraying Joseph, Mary and the wise men adoring the baby Jesus. But ...

The Christmas llama was named Rocky and he had a large, crooked under-bite. With black, soulful eyes that matched his coat, the creature had green boughs adorned with ornaments wrapped around his long ...

Visit a live nNativity in West Tennessee, and chances are you’ll see a camel, a donkey and some sheep, all from Hooker Farms in Milan. The animals travel everywhere from Memphis to Nashville to Tupelo ...

They don't have lines of dialogue, but they are a vital part of the show. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints puts on a live Nativity each year, and sheep, burros, horses and goats are ...

WARSAW, Poland – Animal rights activists are protesting the use of live animals amid freezing temperatures at an outdoors nativity scene in northern Poland. Renata Cieslik of the Animal Protection ...

So we're definitely not using animals." Jackie Vergerio, PETA's captive animals in entertainment specialist, said her organization tracks churches nationwide that use real animals in "living nativity ...