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    Catholic Culture
    Dec 28 2011


    Monks brawl at Bethlehem basilica
    December 28, 2011


    An ugly brawl broke out between Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic
    monks at the basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem on December 28.

    Police were called in to separate the angry monks. No major injuries
    were reported.

    Jurisdiction over the basilica--built on the site where Jesus was
    born--is shared by Greek Orthodox, Armenian, and Roman Catholic
    priests, in an uneasy arrangement, in which parties jealously guard
    their own prerogatives. Today's clash began when one group of monks
    charged that another had infringed on its jurisdiction within the
    building.

    The scuffle broke out--as such confrontations usually do--when the
    monks were cleaning the building, and working in areas beyond the
    patterns of their regular liturgical use.

    http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=12799


    From: Baghdasarian
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