Oh little town of Bethlehem,
how still we see thee lie,
A fight between the priests with brooms
The scars will soon be nigh!
Too easy. Too cheesy.
Riot police were called in to deal with a melee between Greek Orthodox priests and their Armenian brethren in which both sides wielded the weapons of war, broomsticks. Click here for video. The Church of the Nativity is maintained by Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic priests and monks. Unfortunately, they don't always play nice when they enter each other's territories. This time the brush up wasn't over the well-known filioque controversy, the Romans weren't even involved in the brouhaha. But it also appears that no Crude Jude jokes were cracked by the Greeks and no chants of "we were first" came from the Armenians. There doesn't seem to have been any Byzantine theological debate debacle, just a scuffle because someone crossed the invisible line that one of the priests had called out. I don't have much else more, but I think a Banksy tag is in the making.
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