There have been previous reports of statues or images of the Virgin Mary shedding tears, but the latest one in Honduras is different.
Here, a priest, identified as Fr. Juan Angel Lopez, affirmed that he was "certain" the weeping statue of the earthly mother of Jesus Christ in the Honduran town of Danli "has not been faked," the Mirror reports.
However, Fr. Lopez said he, too, just like the others, had no idea what was causing the unusual occurrence.
Baffled worshippers first noticed the tears on the eyes and cheeks of the Virgin Mary statue at the Catholic University of Honduras at the weekend. A video footage shows tears welling up in the statue's eyes before they fall down on the statue's cheeks.
Fr. Lopez, the pastor of the Iglesia Santo Domingo Savio church in nearby Tegucigalpa, is seen talking to the camera before wiping away the tears with a tissue paper.
"I'm not saying it's true; I'm saying it's possible," he told the Honduran news website La Prensa.
"In this case, I suspect that there is no falsehood because I know people who run the Campus Santiago Apostle. I know the seriousness of people who have recorded the video and do not think they would fake it," he said.
The Christian Post has reported at least three other similar phenomena in the recent past.
Last May, a woman in Fresno, California, reportedly revealed that a statue of Mary in her home had been "crying" since her cousin was murdered 18 months ago.
In January this year, a Catholic family in British Colombia, Canada also reported an alleged miracle when their Virgin Mary statue also started crying. The news report attracted 300 worshipers to the apartment to pray.
In October 2015, a church in Malaysia said its Virgin Mary statue was not only crying but also growing taller and smiling. A video of the statue at The Church of St. Thomas More in Subang Jaya showed churchgoers reacting to what they saw.
"Her eyes were moving very slowly, all of us were there and we saw it," one witness said.
"When we started singing 'Ave Maria,' she started smiling and her lips were moving," the witness added.
