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 ...

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The Rio de Janeiro landmark was lit with the message 'habemus papam' after Pope Leo XIV was elected on the second day of ...

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

There are multiple ways to reach Corcovado and Christ the Redeemer. Using public transportation, take bus line 422 from the city center or bus line 583 or the subway to Largo do Machado and then ...

On Thursday night, as the "I Can See You" singer, 33, continued the Latin American leg of her Eras Tour in Rio de Janeiro, she was greeted by the city's landmark Christ the Redeemer statue — but ...

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