I grew up in a church, especially next to a dead saint ... when they told you you were being arrested for stealing a Baby Jesus statue?" "I thought they would look at the photographs of the ...

The damage can be repaired, but the shock wave triggered by the May 6 detonation of an explosive device by an intruder could ...

Analysis: The general belief was that you should leave the statue outside under a bush ... departure from the common portrayals of Jesus as a baby, or as an adult during the crucifixion.

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...

One Mary, a myriad titles According to the Gospel, Mary is the mother of Jesus — and the mystery of the incarnation of the son of God through her is central to Christian dogma.

For years, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints frowned upon cremation, insisting that burial was theologically ...

Restored by an 81-year-old church member named Cecilia Jimenez ... repainting of a 15th-century sculpture of the Virgin Mary, baby Jesus, and St. Anne. Made out of wood, the Romanesque statue was ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A statue of ... would go into the church and do this," Fitka-Larson said. She has accepted the miracle and believes the blood is a message from Jesus.

Indeed, time has not always been generous to the stone Jesus, and repairs have been required as vandals have broken off pieces of the statue's hands. "In the late '80s it was vandalized and one of ...

Religious statues destroyed outside St. Dominic’s Church in Bensonhurst have been beautifully rebuilt. A neighbor’s cellphone video captured the dramatic moment a man destroyed the statues of ...