Perched high atop Corcovado Mountain, the Cristo Redentor, as Brazilians call it, is a postcard not only for the city of Rio ...
Anyone hoping to escape wall-to-wall coronavirus coverage with a day at the beach can forget about it in Rio de Janeiro ... the city's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue and the cable car that ...
Critics, however, see the move as a threat to Brazil’s secular state and ... leads a Catholic Mass at the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro on May 30. - Bruna Prado/AP The Church ...
(CNN) — Perched high atop Corcovado Mountain, Christ the Redeemer is more ... not only for the city of Rio de Janeiro but for the entire country. The statue’s wide-open arms, spanning 92 ...