Just in time to celebrate the birth of Baby Jesus a story to have him spinning like a Catherine Wheel on his Crucifix. The setting, Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity in The West Bank, which, in the style customary for this part of the world, is divided into three sections each administered by a different Christian faction: the Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox and Armenian Apostolic orders, so while cleaning, if the broom of one sect were to stray into the territory of another's what would Jesus have done?
a. turned the other cheek
b. started a fight
c. built a wall with a demilitarised zone administered by the UN
What did the 'Holy Men' do? The battle of the brooms as reported by the BBC.
Oh and they've got form:
"The punch-up began after Greek and Russian Orthodox believers took offence at a door left open. . ." This time The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City. Story on BBC.
28/12/07 @ 13:47