Religions > Atheism > SEVEN INJURED IN BATTLE BETWEEN GREEK ORTHODOX, ARMENIAN PRIESTS OVER JANITORIAL CONTROL OF BIRTHPLACE OF JESUS CHRIST
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SEVEN INJURED IN BATTLE BETWEEN GREEK ORTHODOX, ARMENIAN PRIESTS OVER JANITORIAL CONTROL OF BIRTHPLACE OF JESUS CHRIST |
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) — Seven people were injured on Thursday when
Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how
to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Following the Christmas celebrations, Greek Orthodox priests set up
ladders to clean the walls and ceilings of their part of the church,
which is built over the site where Jesus Christ is believed to have been
born.
But the ladders encroached on space controlled by Armenian priests,
according to photographers who said angry words ensued and blows quickly
followed.
For a quarter of an hour bearded and robed priests laid into each other
with fists, brooms and iron rods while the photographers who had come to
take pictures of the annual cleaning ceremony recorded the whole event.
A dozen unarmed Palestinian policemen were sent to try to separate the
priests, but two of them were also injured in the unholy melee.
"As usual the cleaning of the church afer Christmas is a cause of
problems," Bethlehem Mayor Victor Batarseh told AFP, adding that he has
offered to help ease tensions.
"For the two years that I have been here everything went more or less
calmly," he said. "It's all finished now."
The Church of the Nativity, like the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in
Jerusalem's Old City, is shared by various branches of Christianity,
each of which controls and jealously guards a part of the holy site.
The Church of the Nativity is built on the site where Christians believe
Jesus was born in a stable more than 2,000 years ago after Mary and
Joseph were turned away by an inn.
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Rob Cypher
robcypher.livejournal.com
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http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5itableVuT2QIr2H6dF1FyV1gXZpQ
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AFP) - Seven people were injured on Thursday when
Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how
to clean the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
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