Known locally as the "Bonne Mere" (Good Mother), she is 11.2 metres (36.7 feet) tall and her crown towers 225 metres above the Mediterranean Sea. For more than a century the statue has watched ...

Known locally as the "Bonne Mere" (Good Mother), she is 11.2 metres (36.7 feet) tall and her crown towers 225 metres above the Mediterranean Sea. She was last covered in gold leaf in 1989 but wind, ...

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

A huge golden statue of the Virgin Mary that has for more than a century watched over the French port city of Marseille and its seafarers is this summer to receive a gold-leaf facelift. The virgin ...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — At least 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.

Some 1.8 million mostly barefoot Catholic worshippers marched Thursday in an annual procession in the Philippines that venerates a centuries-old black statue ... prayed for good health for their ...

Rising Ground, a nonprofit with roots in the early 19th century, now houses statues of its founders that used to be on a campus in Yonkers, N.Y. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Friday.