Peru is socially conservative, especially when it comes to sex. It was, after all, the former seat of the Spanish empire in South America, which punished sodomy, masturbation and sex outside marriage ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A giant Christ statue in Peru's capital that was donated by a construction company at the center of Latin America's largest corruption scandal was damaged Saturday in a fire, days ...

A giant statue of Jesus Christ that looms over Lima is causing controversy in Peru because of its financing by the graft-tainted Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht and late ex-president Alan ...

Chiclayo is celebrating following the inauguration and blessing of a large statue of Pope Leo XIV, located in a central roundabout in the city. The statue now welcomes visitors to the northern ...

An honor guard arrives with ceremonial flower wreaths during the unveiling of a bronze statue of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, removed 22 years ago from the main square, in Lima, Peru, ...

TRUJILLO, Peru, May 21 (Reuters) - Every five years, a statue of the Virgin of Socorro is paraded through the streets of Peru's third-largest city, Trujillo. But this year, the coronavirus lockdown ...

MOCHE, Peru—One Sunday afternoon this month, Edson Padilla’s family was visiting this country’s archaeologically rich northern coast and stopped at the latest attraction—a 9-foot-tall statue of an ...

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