CINCINNATI — Brother Tim Sucher carefully unpacked his worldwide collection of nearly 100 Nativity sets, hoping they attract holiday visitors to St. Francis Seraph Church in Over-the-Rhine.

A Christmas tree, a nativity scene, and a half-human, half-goat statue linked to the occult may not seem like displays that normally go together. However, in New Hampshire, all three were briefly on ...

It’s far from the only religious display set up in the public space for the holiday season. The Satanic Temple display outside the New Hampshire Statehouse has been vandalized twice in December.

The Nativity sets, in styles ranging from simple to baroque to whimsical, are displayed for a few days at the beginning of the Christmas season in the sanctuary of St. Dominic, 775 Harrison Ave.

It’s far from the only religious display set up in the public space for the holiday season. The Satanic Temple display outside the New Hampshire Statehouse has been vandalized twice in December. (The ...