A topless woman from an activist group tried to escape with a baby Jesus statue at the Vatican on Christmas Day.
According to Euronews, the topless woman is from the feminist grouping Femen who "considers the anti-war policy of the Vatican a rough medieval attack on the freedom of women and their natural rights."
GONE BABY JESUS GONE: Woman caught carrying baby Jesus figurine arrested for theft
A Reuters photographer witnessed the adult female jumping over the track to snatch the statue in St. Peter's Square on Monday about ii hours earlier Pope Francis delivered his Christmas message to a crowd of people. The photographer says that she ran into the nativity scene shouting "God is woman," which was also painted on her back.
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NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images 53of 53 Reuters reported that the Vatican police stopped her before she could escape with the baby Jesus statue, however The Femen website stated, "FEMEN sextremist Alisa Vinogradova has kidnapped the papal doll of the baby Christ from the Vatican Christmas nativity scene in the foursquare of St. Peter in Vatican."
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