The wooden display in Castenaso, a town in the Italian province of Bologna, features all the hallmarks of a typical Christmas Nativity scene ― shepherds stand by with their flocks, while kings approach an infant bearing gifts. A mayor in northern Italy has decided to turn his town’s Nativity display into a political statement about refugees. Castenaso mayor Stefano Sermenghi chose to include the boat in the manger scene in order to draw attention to the plight of migrants, ANSA reports. The municipality also plans to use an image of this Nativity scene for its Christmas postcards. “The nucleus of a Nativity scene calls for the child in swaddling clothing inside a manger,” he told Il Resto del Carlino, according to a translation from ANSA.

Source: Huffington Post December 07, 2017 21:11 UTC