Another Brawl at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 by Charlie Trimm

The Church of the Holy Sepulchure is the traditional place of the death and burial of Jesus, which one would think would inspire inhabitants toward love and peace. Instead, this shrine is populated by seven different Christian groups who despise each other. Fights break out between them on a somewhat regular basis. The latest happened on Palm Sunday when a Greek Orthodox monk interfered with an Armenian procession. But the irony is that the worshippers carrying palm branches in their hands used them as weapons and started beating the monk with them and then used them on the Israeli police when they tried to break it up. Very sad. And this is the idea of Christianity for Israelis.

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