Parishioners of St. Joseph Mission, a church on tribal land in Mescalero, N.M., allege that their pastor, with the knowledge of the Diocese of Las Cruces, has removed this icon depicting Christ ...

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 who ...

An Indigenous image of Jesus Christ by an acclaimed iconographer has been removed from a New Mexico church for unspecified reasons, days after the U.S. bishops approved a pastoral framework for ...