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‘Apache Christ’ icon removed from New Mexico mission, shocking Indigenous parishioners
(OSV News) — 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 Indigenous ministry. Painted by Franciscan Friar …