2 posts tagged “fight”
I often highlight the faults and crimes of radical Islam on this blog. In an attempt to be fair, here's something from my own people. This happens every year. Every year. The fight in Jerusalem is also a yearly occurrence. Don't mess with the Orthodox, because apparently they carry iron rods around with them to church. Even Franciscans got into the mix a few years ago.
Very much highlights the necessity of everyone coming back to the fold of the Catholic Church, in my humble opinion. But that's a religious matter. In political terms, this kind of stuff highlights the very strong convictions that can lead to violence, even among a religion that explicitly asks its adherents to turn the other cheek.
Priests brawl at Bethlehem birthplace of Jesus
View larger imageSeven 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.
More Zombie Madness. Here is an exciting game that puts you in control of a squad of soldiers dealing with the undead. From a site that I found...fun time wasting.
