Some 50,000 people visit St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City daily. The 500-year-old structure, with its 448-foot-high dome, ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th ...

The perpetrator broke several candelabra, worth tens of thousands of Euros, and then ripped off the covering on Saint Peter's tomb before being tackled by security.

Mobile phone footage circulating on social media showed a man standing on the altar under the towering Baldachin canopy.

A man jumped onto the altar of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Friday, knocking off six candelabra worth about 30,000 ...

A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that ...

The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

The altar is located directly above the tomb of Saint Peter, considered one of Jesus Christ’s Twelve Apostles in Christian tradition.

Pope Francis emphasized Mary Magdalene’s transformative encounter with the risen Christ as a model for personal conversion.

are flocking daily to the Vatican for the 2025 Jubilee. On entering St Peter’s Basilica, they cannot but admire the recently restored baldachin that towers over the tomb of St Peter and the high ...

A man jumped onto the altar of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Friday, knocking off six candelabra worth about €30,000 ...