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Vatican bans tattoos and body piercings for St Peter’s Basilica workers

Vatican City Reuters The Vatican has banned workers at St Peter’s Basilica from having visible tattoos or body piercings to maintain “decorum”. The new regulation, published at the weekend, applies to the roughly 170 lay employees of the Fabbrica di San Pietro, the department in charge of the basilica. Pope Francis leads a prayer service […]

Tattoo artists in uproar over EU ink bans

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Brussels, Belgium Reuters Tattoo parlours across the European Union were in crisis on Tuesday as a new rule came into force which effectively bans many of their most popular inks and which one artist described as like taking “taking the flour from a bakery”. Tattoo artists say alternatives to the inks, some of which have […]