Jesus returns!

After nearly a year, a stolen Baby Jesus has been returned, along with his travelogue, the AP reports.

Stolen last Christmas from a Buffalo, NY homeowner's front yard, the statue of the Christ Child was returned recently with a photo album showing His visits to highway exits in Binghamton, Rochester, Albany and Poughkeepsie. He also posed on a bicycle, on a horse, wearing a seat belt in a car, in a chair next to a campfire and in someone's kitchen.

A note said the prank wasn't meant to be "blasphemous or disrespectful."

John Leising, from whose yard the statue was purloined last year, said the real Jesus would have forgiven the pranksters, so he does, too.

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