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HONG KONG – Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through a forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting stump of an incense tree that is one of over a dozen illegally felled for ...

A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on ...

Security staff at the Vatican have apprehended a man after he jumped on to the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica and damaged some candelabra. The incident, which took place on 7 February ...

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A man desecrated the main altar of St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican by climbing on top of it and throwing six candelabras that were on the altar to the ground, according to the Italian news ...

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(Incense could also be used ... who is kneeling on the sanctuary steps (or the steps of the altar). Servers should immediately go to their places and set down their candles and cross before ...