The life-sized wooden statue was brought to the Philippines in the early 1600s shortly after the start of the Spanish colonial conquest. Its black colour was believed to have been caused by a fire ...

Eight years ago a statue of the Virgin Mary was sunk off the coast of Bohol in the Philippines to try to stop dynamite fishing because it was destroying precious marine life. Now the "Sea Knights ...

Catbalogan residents ask the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines to hold ... civil works at the Pieta Park caused the wreckage of the La Pieta statue, with the head of the statue ...