Catholics in India’s financial capital Mumbai (formerly Bombay), have condemned vandalism and desecration of a roadside statue of Jesus Christ, while calling for strict action against the perpetrators ...

On the edge of a dusty construction site, 30 minutes outside Yerevan, stands what may become the world's tallest statue of Jesus Christ – although, for now, it remains in pieces. Part unfinished ...

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SEVERAL religious statues have had to be covered following a shocking restoration by an amateur that left them looking like a cartoon goth rock band. The disastrous restoration left the icons of Jesus ...

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Gagik Tsarukyan hopes project will resonate with global movement that blends religious faith, nationalism and cultural conservatism Behind the walls of a sprawling estate on the outskirts of Yerevan, ...

Looking around at the life-sized sculptures, 8-year-old Xavier McKeown, from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, was impressed. “It’s really cool how the artist made everything so big and detailed,” he observed.

Parishioners at a Redding church were shocked recently when church staff showed up one morning to find a life-sized statue of Jesus pulled to the ground, broke and desecrated. The life-sized image of ...

An administration lawyer made this shocking and cynical argument in court last week. That’s the position of an emperor, not a president. A single exchange in last Friday’s D.C. Circuit argument laid ...

There are more than 1,000 moai statues on Easter Island, representing a key part of the region’s cultural and archeological past. A new moai, smaller than most, was found in a dried-up lakebed. The ...

Community-run game servers in titles like Minecraft are called out for being 'illegal' during a hearing held in the California Senate. Extraction shooter fans who enjoy aesthetics like Cyberpunk 2077 ...