Christmas is year-round in Greccio, a small cliffside village in Lazio. The reason? This is where St Francis of Assisi created the first-ever nativity scene in a cave in 1223. The medieval village of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLORADO SPRINGS — After fifteen years of envisioning an affordable housing development, three nonprofit organizations, alongside ...

Greccio Housing began managing the East Hills Apartments this week - a move pushing the nonprofit's housing stock above 500 units at a time when the city faces a massive shortage in affordable housing ...

With help from funds distributed by a federal program to revitalize older, distressed neighborhoods and communities, Greccio Housing has purchased a 36-unit apartment building on East Bijou Street — ...

St. Francis of Assisi created the first Nativity scene on Dec. 25, 1223, the same year the rule of the Franciscan order was approved by Pope Honorius III. Pope Francis visits the place of the first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (COLORADO SPRINGS) — On Thursday, July 17, Greccio Housing, in collaboration with the Center for Strategic Ministry and Woodmen ...

We live at a time in which Christmas crèches have become so much a part of Catholic piety that many believe that they must have existed from the first centuries of Christianity. But they are an ...

It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, itinerant preacher. One of the world’s most beloved ...

This year marks the 800th anniversary of the hallowed Christmas Eve in 1223 when St. Francis of Assisi summoned the people of Greccio, Italy, to a manger he had arranged with straw and a breathing ox ...

CEBU, Philippines - “He who has not understood the mystery of Christmas has not understood the decisive element of the Christian existence.’’ As the season of Christmas is nearly upon us, as we ...