The focus of this tense, unresolved episode is the 8-foot Apache Christ painting. For this close-knit community, it is a revered icon created by Franciscan friar Robert Lentz in 1989. It depicts ...

The Apache Christ painting hangs behind the altar of St. Joseph Apache Mission church in Mescalero, New Mexico, Saturday, July 13, 2024. The painting, an icon that depicts Christ as a Mescalero ...

Religion Team reporter Deepa Bharath and freelance video journalist Andres Leighton won the trust of an Apache community in New Mexico to produce a sensitive, visually spectacular account of how ...

The focus of this tense, unresolved episode is the 8-foot Apache Christ painting. For this close-knit community, it is a revered icon created by Franciscan friar Robert Lentz in 1989. It depicts ...

MESCALERO, New Mexico — Anne Marie Brillante never imagined she would have to choose between being Apache and being Catholic. To her, and many others in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico ...

For many in the Mescalero Apache tribe in New Mexico who are members of St. Joseph Apache Mission, their Indigenous culture was always intertwined with faith. Both are sacred. Apache Christ icon ...