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Eight-year-old Yamen Abu Hilal lies on a bed as a woman sits beside him in a hospital room in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Nov. 24, 2025. His condition has sharply worsened amid the collapse of Gaza’s health care system, which has been unable to provide diagnostic tools, medication, or equipment since no medical supplies have entered the Strip following the ceasefire. / Credit: Doaa Albaz/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

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Bernini’s famous baldacchino in St. Peter’s Basilica. / Credit: Ricardo André Frantz/Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0

Man Desecrates Main Altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Throws Candelabras to the Ground

Feb 8, 2025

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

Marian Grotto of Our Lady of the Fields Mbandjock Parish of Cameroon’s Catholic Diocese of Obala vandalized on 7 February 2024. Credit: Obala Diocese

Marian Grotto in Cameroonian Catholic Diocese Vandalized, Investigations Ongoing

Feb 7, 2024

The Marian Grotto of Our Lady of the Fields Mbandjock Parish of Cameroon’s Catholic Diocese of Obala has been vandalized, the Parish Priest has said.

Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Rouen, France. | Credit: Archdiocese of Rouen

Altar Vandalized, Sacred Vessels Stolen from Sacred Heart Basilica in France

Nov 17, 2023

During the night of Nov. 14–15, unidentified persons destroyed the altar and stole sacred vessels from the Sacred Heart Basilica in the Archdiocese of Rouen.

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Man Desecrates Main Altar of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, Throws Candelabras to the Ground

Marian Grotto in Cameroonian Catholic Diocese Vandalized, Investigations Ongoing

Altar Vandalized, Sacred Vessels Stolen from Sacred Heart Basilica in France

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