Photos featured this week include the Nativity scene and Christmas tree in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a procession in the neighborhood surrounding Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in St. Paul and the 30th Posada Without Borders celebration at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico.
The Nativity scene is revealed and Christmas tree is lighted in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Dec. 9, 2023. The creche is a reproduction of the scene in Greccio, Italy, where St. Francis of Assisi staged the first Nativity scene in 1223. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Paola Martinez speaks to journalists during the 30th Posada Without Borders celebration at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico, Dec. 9, 2023. Religious, human rights and civil society groups organize the annual event at the U.S.-Mexico border wall in honor of immigrants and asylum seekers. During the event participants re-enact the search for shelter by Mary and Joseph. (OSV News photo/David Maung)
People celebrate the arrival of the Peace Light of Bethlehem outside St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, during a ceremony Dec. 10, 2023, to launch the Christmas season. (OSV News photo/Vladyslav Musiienko, Reuters)
A Palestinian boy lies on a bed as he receives treatment in a hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip Dec. 12, 2023, amid doctors warning of the spread of diseases and infections among children due to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (OSV News photo/Fadi Shana, Reuters)
Chicago-born Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops, uses incense to bless an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican during Pope Francis’ Mass on her feast day Dec. 12, 2023. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Maribel Rangel holds an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe passed down from her late grandmother as she takes part in a procession in the neighborhood surrounding Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in St. Paul, Minn., Dec. 11, 2023, the eve of the Dec. 12 Marian feast day. Maribel, 24, who is a lifelong member of the parish, also wore a coat her grandmother passed down to her. (OSV News photo/Dave Hrbacek, The Catholic Spirit)
A child sits on a downed pole outside a destroyed home in Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 10, 2023, a day after a tornado swept through the town. (OSV News photo/Kevin Wurm, Reuters)
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