A Polish billionaire and his wife have just announced plans to build a statue of the Virgin Mary in his home country.

Christ the Redeemer, the iconic statue with its arms extended overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was struck by lightning damaging the statue's right hand thumb, making it lose one finger ...

Brazil, the largest country in South America, boasts stunning beaches, the Amazon rainforest, and the famous Carnival festival. Visitors can marvel at Christ the Redeemer statue and explore the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A mammoth crowd of mostly barefoot Catholic devotees joined Thursday a chaotic procession through downtown ...

In the Polish village of Konotopa, near Toruń, the construction has begun of a Virgin Mary statue that will measure more than ...

Barefoot men and women clad in maroon shirts -- the colour of the robe that covers the black, wooden Jesus of Nazarene statue -- scrambled to grab the rope used to draw the life-sized religious ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A police station sign hangs on a post near the Christ the Redeemer statue in the favela Morro dos Prazeres ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Some 1.8 million mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue of Jesus.