The vandal used a rock from the parish garden to “repeatedly strike” a statue of the Blessed Mother outside the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Jamaica, Queens, this week.

A vandal was caught on video bashing a statue of the Virgin Mary with a rock outside a Queens ... picked up a large rock from the garden, and repeatedly struck the statue in the head with it.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Catholic church said it is determined to right what vandals wronged. Worshipers arrived at Saint Anthony Catholic Church on Benton Boulevard Sunday to find a mess.

The white statue, about 4 feet tall, depicts Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ. Surrounded by tulips waiting to bloom, it stands in what parishioners call the "sunken garden" along Broad Street ...

Mary gardens also usually include a statue or image of Mary, sometimes holding the infant Jesus, as a focal point for devotion. The first Mary garden in the United States is acknowledged to have ...

In a Facebook post, the St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church says the statue was stolen Monday, from its Holy Savior Rosary Garden. The Church has reached out to police, but there are no ...

PARIS (AP) — A medieval statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, known as “The Virgin of Paris,” returned to Notre Dame Cathedral, five years after surviving the devastating 2019 fire that ...

Construction has begun on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland. It’s believed that the project, once it is finished, will be the tallest religious structure of its kind ...

A “hateful” vandal smashed a statue of the Blessed Mary outside a Catholic church ... “The man picked up a rock from the parish garden and began to repeatedly strike the statue, causing ...

Vandals damaged the parish’s prayer garden and “beheaded and committed sacrilege” to the Virgin Mary statue that stood outside the church. Members of the parish believe the vandalism ...

Each spring, some Catholics plant flowers around a statue of the Virgin Mary, reviving a tradition that goes back to medieval England when holy figures were remembered and shared through plant and ...