Showing posts with label statue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label statue. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Israeli troops will spend weeks in military prison for desecration of Virgin Mary statue in Lebanon | PBS News
It was the latest act by Israeli forces to be denounced as anti-Christian in southern Lebanon, where Israel launched a ground invasion earlier this year to target the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group...
Friday, March 13, 2026
New satirical statue depicts Trump and Epstein as doomed lovers from Titanic
Latest sculpture titled 'King of the World' includes plaques with pointed commentary on pair's past association…
Friday, December 5, 2025
RoboCop statue rises in Detroit: ‘Big, beautiful, bronze piece of art’
A 15-year quest ends with a monument, drawing crowds and nostalgia as Detroit embraces its cult-film past…
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Trump-Epstein friendship statue is removed from National Mall : NPR
A Secret Handshake group member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation from the Trump administration, told NPR over email that it found out late Tuesday that "some people within the parks department aka most likely the Trump administration were trying to find ways to say we were not in compliance."
They said the group was reassured that if that were to happen, it would get 24 hours' written notice to remove the statue themselves, as required by the permit.
"Instead, they showed up in the middle of the night without notice and physically toppled the statue, broke it, and took it away," the member said. "We do not know where it is."…
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/24/nx-s1-5552505/trump-epstein-statue-removed-national-mall
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands placed on National Mall - The Washington Post
The work is the latest installation in Washington by an anonymous group of artists critical of the president.
Monday, September 22, 2025
Oklahoma Republicans propose all state colleges must have Charlie Kirk statue
Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/20/oklahoma-republicans-charlie-kirk
Friday, June 20, 2025
Eight-foot-tall ‘Dictator Approved’ sculpture appears on National Mall - The Washington Post
"I actually love it," said another District resident…
Friday, March 28, 2025
Saturday, February 15, 2025
Italian ‘mystic’ may face trial after DNA match with blood on Virgin Mary statue
A self-styled mystic who drew hundreds of pilgrims to a town near Rome by claiming that a statue of the Virgin Mary wept tears of blood could face trial after a DNA test indicated the blood was hers...
Sunday, December 15, 2024
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Saturday, December 16, 2023
Satanic Temple condemns vandalism of its statue by Christian military veteran | Iowa | The Guardian
"My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree. And so I acted."
Tuesday, March 1, 2022
Trump’s ‘supreme reign’ reflected in golden statue at CPAC conference: report - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism
…"Trump's presence loomed large throughout the confab even before he was scheduled to deliver Saturday evening's keynote address," the site reported Friday. "Throughout the conference's main hall, exhibitors prominently displayed Trump's likeness to sell their products, including a large golden statue of the former president hawking Patriot Mobile, 'America's only Christian conservative wireless provider,' along with the usual assortment of MAGA wares including hand-stitched hammocks embroidered with Trump's name and '45.'"…
Friday, September 17, 2021
Archbishops urge California governor to save controversial statue of 18th-century priest
…Tens of thousands of Native Americans were forced into the mission system under Serra's leadership. They were used as forced labour to build mission farming projects, poorly fed, separated from family and forced into tight living quarters, where many were killed by disease. Rebellions were brutally put down…
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Bust of Klan leader is removed from Tennessee state capitol after decades
The bust was installed in the state capitol in 1978, despite fierce opposition. A newspaper clipping from 1980, republished by the local TV station WBIR, shows leaders of the Tennessee chapter of the Ku Klux Klan meeting below the bust wearing their robes and hoods...
Saturday, March 6, 2021
The real message behind that golden Trump statue - The Washington Post
... As president, Trump cast himself as White America's redeemer, the one who would "make America great again." His supporters, in worshiping him, are hanging on to the mythic form of patriotism he espoused...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Frederick Douglass: Historic US black activist's statue toppled - BBC News
It appears to have been vandalised on 5 July - the anniversary of a famous speech the former slave gave in 1852.
In it he said Independence Day celebrations were a sham in a nation that still enslaved its black citizens.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53311558
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53311558
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Statue in Lincoln Memorial Was Not Defaced by Protesters - FactCheck.org
A meme is spreading a doctored image of the Lincoln Memorial covered in graffiti to falsely claim that protesters defaced the Lincoln statue. The image was taken from a thumbnail for a video on the conservative website the Daily Wire and shared as if real.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/statue-in-lincoln-memorial-was-not-defaced-by-protesters/
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/statue-in-lincoln-memorial-was-not-defaced-by-protesters/
Monday, July 8, 2019
New Melania Trump statue in Slovenia gets mixed reviews - BBC News
A sculpture of the US first lady unveiled in her hometown of Sevnica gets mixed reviews.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48890660
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48890660
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