Critics, however, see the move as a threat to Brazil’s secular state and its environmental commitments. Built in 1922 by the Catholic Church, the Christ the Redeemer statue is inside the Tijuca ...

The statue in the Brazilin city of Rio de Janeiro was illuminated as tribute to the election of the new pontiff on Thursday.

Although the Christ the Redeemer looks like a ... from the Atlantic rainforest on the statue – making the monument even more redolent of Rio and Brazil as a whole. The bacteria were cleaned ...

Taylor Swift received a divine welcome upon her arrival in Brazil. On Thursday night ... she was greeted by the city's landmark Christ the Redeemer statue — but it had been personalized for ...

Christ the Redeemer, the iconic statue with its arms extended overlooking Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was struck by lightning damaging the statue's right hand thumb, making it lose one finger ...

Recognized as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, this statue of Jesus Christ stands with arms ... as a religious and cultural symbol of the Brazilian people's warm and welcoming culture.

Rio will be hosting the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016 and officials are expecting a surge in visitors to the Christ Redeemer statue. The Rio archdioceses and the Brazilian Ministry of ...

The new statue is also higher than Brazil's Christ the Protector statue (43.4 m) and Romania's Heart of Jesus Statue (22.5 m). Moses went on to say that there was a deep philosophy behind the ...