Besides the Holy Doors, other factors have contributed to the high number of people visiting Rome and other parts of Italy to ...

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

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

Security staff at the Vatican have apprehended a man after he jumped on to the main altar in St Peter’s Basilica and damaged ...

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 altar is considered one of the holiest sites in Christianity having been built above the tomb of Saint Peter, who in the religion's tradition was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Roman Catholic faithful will be able to view St. Peter’s tomb remotely as part of the Vatican’s technological outreach with its far-flung flock during the upcoming Holy Year.

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 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.

Able to hold more than 60,000 people, St Peter's is the largest Catholic church in the world. Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, it contains the tomb of St Peter, who according to Catholic ...

Bishop John LeVoir and a delegation from the Diocese of New Ulm will depart for Rome on Jan. 10, returning Jan. 18, for an “ad limina apostolorum” visit to the Holy See, the Vatican. Through the ...