SAN JUAN DEL SUR – Inspired by the 120-foot “Christ The Redeemer” statue that overlooks Rio de Janeiro while visiting Brazil, Nicaraguan entrepreneur Erwin González set out seven years ago to build ...

SÃO PAULO –A small city in the south of Brazil plans to unveil one of the world’s biggest Christ statues, a 121-foot-tall giant of concrete placed on a 20-foot-high platform. It could be seen ...

The Christ the Redeemer statue atop Corcovado mountain was meant to be an act of religious propaganda for Rio de Janeiro. But over the past century, it has become the symbol of the tolerant ...