British Museum to fully digitise collection after ‘inside job’ thefts
London, UKReuters The British Museum plans to digitise its entire collection, citing the need to secure public access to its vast catalogue after it reported in August that 2,000 artefacts had been stolen or were missing. The museum, one of the most visited in the world, has been dealing with the aftermath of the thefts, which highlighted internal […]
After $US2 million New York church robbery, houses of worship evaluate theft risk
RNS When Rev Frank Tumino, pastor of St Augustine, walked into his Catholic church in the Park Slope neighbourhood of Brooklyn on the last Saturday in May, he found physical and spiritual wreckage: Angels that had decorated the front of the building were decapitated, Communion wafers were scattered across the altar and, most shocking, an […]