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  • Huge broom fight between priests at church said to be the birthplace

    NBCSports.com
    Dec 29 2011

    Huge broom fight between priests at church said to be the birthplace of Jesus

    Rick Chandler
    Dec 28, 2011, 6:38 PM EST

    Sorry this is somewhat off topic - unless fighting with brooms in a
    church becomes a sport (your move, ESPN Deportes). It all happened in
    Bethlehem, two days after Christmas, as groups of rival priests
    attacked each other with brooms during the traditional cleaning of the
    Church of the Nativity. That's the church in the West Bank that is
    said to be on the site where Jesus was born. Rival groups of Armenian
    and Greek Orthodox clergymen had a dispute over territorial boundaries
    in the church, and decided to throw down. Yep. Things got so raucous
    that Palestinian police - which I'm pretty sure have better things to
    do - were called in to quell the riot.

    Video here.

    Bemused tourists looked on as about 100 priests fought with brooms
    while cleaning the church in preparation for Orthodox Christmas, on 7
    January.

    Palestinian police armed with batons and shields broke up the clashes.
    Police are calling it a `scuffle,' but in looking at the video, it
    seemed like much more than that. I've seen mellower gang wars.

    Of course to the Palestinian police, anything that doesn't involve
    tanks and rockets is probably classified as a scuffle.

    http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2011/12/28/huge-broom-fight-between-priests-at-church-said-to-be-the-birthplace-of-jesus/


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