JESUS and Virgin Mary statues have been left looking like cartoon characters after a restoration job went wrong. The ...

A sculpture depicting the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus has been destroyed just days after it went on view at a cathedral in northern Austria and drew criticism from some Catholics ...

Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are ...

The Virgin Mary statue and its Jesus counterpart were left looking as if one was wearing grey underwear and the other as if ...

Roughly 100 Catholics from across the county paraded down Worth Avenue, singing hymns and reciting prayers in veneration of ...

Villagers are searching for an amateur artist who ‘renovated’ a more than 200-year-old shrine in Poland. Jesus and the Virgin ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s apparition time: 5:40 p.m. In a small Roman Catholic chapel in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the village of ...

For over 200 years, villagers in southern Poland have paid homage to a roadside shrine depicting Jesus and the Virgin Mary. But now locals are up in arms after a botched renovation of the 1820 ...

March 25th is a significant date for Hellenism, as it marks both the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and the ...

or simply "Mary the Virgin" refers primarily to the conception and birth of Jesus. From the first formulations of faith, especially in baptismal formulas or professions of faith, the Church ...

The Virgin Mary has been given yellow skin and giant white eyes, making her look like a poorly-drawn character from the Simpsons. Jesus has also been painted with the same alarming shade of yellow ...