A painting depicting Jesus Christ was spared from the flames after a 150-year-old church suffered severe damage after a lightning set the building ablaze. ... beautiful bill' Jun 29, 9:32 PM.

The 10-foot by 19-foot painting, which was painted by the late merchant mariner Hunter A. Wood in 1944, depicts Jesus saving sailors lost at sea and hung in the USMMA's Wiley Hall for 76 years ...

An eagle-eyed art trader in Austria bought a painting of Jesus Christ — and discovered a secret portrait of Jesus hidden underneath that was covered up during conservative Victorian times.

A lightning strike reportedly ignited a massive inferno Tuesday night at the 150-year-old First Baptist Church in Wakefield, Massachusetts, destroying almost everything inside -- but amid the ...

CHICAGO — The first time the Rev. Lettie Moses Carr saw Jesus depicted as black, she was in her 20s. It felt “weird,” Carr said. Until that moment, she had always thought Jesus was white. At ...

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, hid a large painting of Jesus behind a curtain after the Military Religious Freedom Foundation complained about it.

Even today, the question of sexualized religious images in art is alive and well. In early 2024, a “sexualized” painting of Jesus by Spanish artist Salustiano García Cruz was decried as ...