Vatica­n gendar­me stoppe­d her from taking the statue and she was detain­edVATICAN CITY: A topless activist from the feminist group Femen tried to snatch the statue of the baby Jesus from the Nativity scene in St Peter’s Square on Monday but was stopped by police as she grabbed it. A Reuters photographer said the woman jumped over guard rails and rushed onto the larger-than-life Nativity scene shouting “God is woman”. This woman has been making the internet a safer place for Pakistani womenA Vatican gendarme stopped her from taking the statue and she was detained. The incident happened about two hours before Pope Francis delivered his Christmas message to some 50,000 people in the square. A Femen activist staged a similar action on Christmas Day 2104 but managed to take the statue out of the crib before she was arrested.

Source: The Express Tribune December 25, 2017 14:15 UTC