Hobby Lobby is giving away 500,000 free copies of Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christmas: A Journalist Investigates the Identity of the Child in the Manger" for the Christmas season, according to the author.

Strobel announced the deal himself earlier this month on his X account.

"People are sending me photos of the Free Gift they received from Hobby Lobby after shopping there -- my new book The Case for Christmas! Hobby Lobby is giving away half a million free copies to customers at their stores! I'm praying God uses them to point people to Himself!" Strobel wrote on Dec. 3.

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He promoted the giveaway again on Dec. 6, posting a photo of himself outside one of the retail giant's locations.

"Hobby Lobby stores nationwide are giving away FREE copies of my new book The Case for Christmas to customers as long as the half million copies last! On Saturday, Leslie and I visited their store in Paducah, KY and met wonderful people," Strobel wrote.

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In a comment to Fox News Digital, Strobel said that Hobby Lobby had first approached his publisher, Zondervan, with the idea.

"I loved the idea because the holiday tends to get commercialized and secularized, but the book delves into the historical evidence for the Christmas story and sets the record straight on many misconceptions," Strobel said.

He added that since then, he has received several emails and photos from people who were surprised and pleased to have received what he called "a spiritual stocking stuffer."

"What makes the Christmas story so inspiring is that it's true — and I hope the book will open a lot of eyes to why even a former atheist like me has come to accept its historical roots," Strobel said.

Fox News Digital also reached out to Hobby Lobby for comment.

A former atheist, Strobel converted to Christianity in 1981 and has since authored several books focusing on defending faith, such as "The Case for Christ," "The Case for Faith," "The Case for a Creator," "The Case for Grace, "The Case for Miracles," "The Case for Heaven," "Is God Real?" and "Seeing the Supernatural."

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Strobel previously published the book "The Case for Christmas" in 2005. He later released a "revised and updated" edition of the book for its 20th anniversary in September.

Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green has frequently spoken about the importance of adhering to his faith as a business owner.

"From the very beginning, our purpose was to honor God in all that we did. We worked hard and God gave the results. As we were blessed by God, we saw it as a great privilege to give back. We’ve been able to provide hope through supporting ministries and planting churches all over the world," Green told Fox News in 2022.

FIRST ON FOX: The leader of an international pro-life organization lauded the Nativity scene set up by the Vatican that highlighted the more than 25,000 babies who were not aborted this year thanks to the group's outreach initiatives.

In an interview with Fox News Digital, 40 Days for Life CEO and founder Shawn Carney said the Vatican reached out to his organization about creating a Nativity scene representing the babies he says were saved by the group's pro-life activism, which includes prayer and vigils outside abortion clinics.

"It's really beautiful," Carney said.

"The artist made the straw in the manger where Baby Jesus is and Mary, and Joseph," he continued. "The straw is made up of 25,000 ribbons. Each ribbon represents a baby boy or baby girl that was saved from abortion during a 40 Days for Life campaign."

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Crafted by Costa Rican artist Paula Sáenz Soto and donated by the Central American country, it features a pregnant Virgin Mary, Joseph and  thousands of colored ribbons dedicated to the babies who were not aborted.

Pope Leo XIV said at a recent audience with the donors of the Vatican's Christmas decorations that a sign of life was reflected in the Nativity scene in the Vatican’s audience hall, which he described as a sign of "faith and hope."

Each of the ribbons that decorate the scene "represent a life saved from abortion thanks to the prayer and support provided by Catholic organizations to many mothers in need," said the pontiff, who personally blessed the display.

Leo also thanked the artist for the message affirming that "life is protected from conception."

Carney said the Nativity was "inspiring" and "beautiful news," particularly amid a series of recent bad news in the U.S. and around the world.

"It's so inspiring, and frankly, we've had a lot of bad news lately in America and around the world, and this display represents good news," he told Fox News Digital.

"It represents babies that have been saved from abortion, and the artist who is a participant in 40 Days for Life who is from Costa Rica, did a wonderful job. She did a fantastic job making this beautiful display that really shows the dedication of so many pro-life volunteers around the world who take time out in the hopes of saving a baby. And now those saved babies are represented in the most important place in the world, which is the Nativity, which is what we pin our hope to, that Jesus came through the womb, that he came through a family to save us from our sins," he continued.

"So it’s beautiful news, it’s good news, and I think it's news that's being well received as we've had so much bad news the last few weeks," Carney added.

Carney went on to explain that the Nativity is "at the heart of Catholicism and all Christians, and certainly at the heart of the pro-life movement."

"This is why we do what we do," he said. "Our Lord could have popped out of an acorn and saved us from our sins. He didn't do that. God chose a family, a holy family, a 14-year-old virgin, to bring his son into the world through the womb, which is statistically now the most dangerous place in the world. He chose the womb, he chose a family, and the family is under attack. So this is a beautiful nativity display, but I think it speaks to the heart of every Christian that looks for hope in the world, that looks for hope for us to overcome our own sins, and certainly hope that we can end the tragedy and the barbaric nature of abortion in our world. America is leading the way through that." "We just had a historic year for the pro-life movement in 2025, and I think 2026 is going to be even better," he added. "This display certainly inspires so much hope and confidence that if we pray, if we fast, if we're faithful and we get to work, we can end abortion anywhere."

Carney also stressed that the Nativity of a pregnant Mary with an unborn Jesus "speaks to the scientific reality of the unborn child and the Biblical reality that Our Lord came through the womb."

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"The Nativity is one of the most depicted scenes in the history of the world, and it represents that great meeting between Heaven and earth, Christ coming into the world through a child nine months after the Annunciation," he said. "So it's absolutely beautiful. It puts emphasis on how we treat our unborn children with 72 million abortions around the world every year. It is by far the greatest moral crisis of our time, and we have to respond to that. We have to respond with great hope, and you don't find a greater hope than Jesus coming into the world and being with us on Christmas Day."

The pro-life leader also stated that the pope "is going to be a stronger voice than most people think" on the issue of abortion.

"I think he's righting the ship," Carney said. "I think he's speaking with a little bit more clarity than what we saw from Pope Francis. Pope Leo has been very supportive of the pro-life movement. He's certainly been very supportive of 40 Days for Life with this beautiful Nativity at the Vatican, so I'm very encouraged."