An Indigenous image of Jesus Christ by an acclaimed iconographer has been removed from a New Mexico church for unspecified reasons, days after the U.S. bishops approved a pastoral framework for ...
THE Apache Christ painting hangs behind the altar of St. Joseph Apache Mission church in Mescalero, New Mexico, on July 13. The painting, an icon that depicts Christ as a Mescalero medicine man, was ...
MESCALERO, New Mexico — Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico who ...