A statue of a Spanish conquistador has controversially been reinstated in the centre of Peru’s capital city, bucking the anti-colonialist global trend. The decision to refurbish and return Francisco Pizarro on his horse was met with a backlash from indigenous people who have campaigned for relics of colonial Spain to be removed.

A bronze statue of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro, removed from Lima's main square 22 years ago, was unveiled Saturday during celebrations for the city's 490th anniversary.

Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.

Effigy of soldier who conquered Peru after slaughtering the Incas reinstated in heart of city – but indigenous people brand it an ‘insult’

A statue of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro has been reinstalled in the centre of Peru's capital Lima, more than 20 years after it was removed. The sculpture was unveiled during a ceremony marking the 490th anniversary of the city's founding.

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In their investigation into the Catholic movement Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, Vatican officials uncovered “sadistic” sect-like abuses of power, authority and spirituality.

A 9-million-year-old fossil of one of the extinct relatives of the great white shark was presented Monday in Lima at the Geological, Mining and Metallurgical Institute (Ingemmet), which noted that the piece includes the stomach contents of the large fossilized animal.

The iconic statue of Peru's conqueror Francisco Pizarro returned this Saturday to a place of privilege in Lima, next to the Plaza de Armas, just a few meters from the cathedral where the remains of the Spaniard rest,

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Bonifacia, one of seven sisters from the Omuto Community, Province of Urcos, is dressed in a cherry-pink wool jacket hand-stitched with multicolored, stylized flowers, a full black skirt, also

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