Fist Fight in Jerusalem, Priests vs Monks
Israel: This morning I (as in the Pagan Prattle person, not the Peculiar Kestra) woke up to an amusing story at the tail end of the news, the place where they dump the saccharine and strange. It seems there's been a punch-up in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Roman Catholic and Orthodox clerics have exchanged blows inside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of Christianity's holiest sites.The punch-up began after Greek and Russian Orthodox believers took offence at a door left open by members of the Franciscan order during a service.
At least five people were injured in the fracas — including Israeli police officers called in to quell it.
The church is shared jealously by six rival Christian sects.
This moronity has been going on for centuries. It was so bad back in the 12th century that Saladin handed the guardianship of the key to the only entrance to the church over to two Muslim families in 1178 in an attempt to stop the six Christian sects squabbling with each other. It seems some things never change.
Jerusalem clerics in punch-up row - BBC, 27th September 2004.