WHEN Gideon met the angel of God and recognised the Lord had remembered Israel, he immediately went and destroyed his father’s altar that was erected in their city in honour of foreign gods. For seven ...

An illustration of a Teotihuacan-style altar that was recently discovered in the Mayan site of Tikal is displayed on a screen as Guatemalan archaeologist Lorena Paiz, right, speaks during a press ...

The altar is dedicated to St Peter. It was originally consecrated on 13th October 1269. The present wooden altar table, normally covered by an embroidered frontal, and reredos above it were designed ...