As wildfires continue to rage in a number of neighborhoods in Los Angeles, uplifting stories about houses spared from damages are giving residents hope for recovery in their communities.

Make sure to leave the all-inclusive bubble for lunch near Ephesus, in the town of Selçuk. The kebabs were particularly ...

More than a half-century later, a new documentary is calling into question who took it — and the retired Associated Press ...

In a story published Jan. 13, 2025, The Associated Press reported that a crown stolen from a Philadelphia church was created by James E. Caldwell & Co. around 1900. The story should have made clear ...

Police released images and video of the man they say stole a 125-year-old bejeweled golden crown from atop a marble statue of ...

A California family went viral over the weekend for singing a song after discovering that a statue of the Virgin Mary had ...

In an exploration of faith, history and storytelling, Judith M. Davis has published "Finding the Virgin Mary: Her Evolving Stories from Early Christianity to Modernity" (McFarland Publishing, 2024).

It was remarkable how everything had gotten fried, but the statue of The Virgin Mary and another statue of Saint Joseph were in perfect condition,” Peter Halpin, the family patriarch, ...

The crown was made of jewelry and gems donated by parishioners after the church experienced a major fire in the early 1900s, ...

In a neighbourhood of 60 homes ravaged by the Palisades Fire, the only thing left standing at Mr Rick McGeagh’s ranch house near the Will Rogers State Park is a statue of the Virgin Mary he installed ...

Ellie O’Byrne revisits one of county Cork’s strangest phenomena: a statue of the Virgin Mary that, in 1985, drew enormous ...