France to allow Baby Jesus in Town Halls this Christmas

‘It’s now an annual row in fiercely secular France: Should Christmas nativity scenes be on show in public buildings like Town Halls, where the wearing of religious symbols is banned?
This year the row began even before the Christmas lights have gone up on the Champs Elysées thanks to complaints about the existence of nativity scenes at the Vendée’s council building in western France, and another in Melun in the south eastern suburbs of Paris.
Both nativity scenes were contested by local Free Thinking Associations, who argued that public places are no place for the traditional Christmas scene of Baby Jesus in a manger surrounded by cattle and shepherds.’
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