WTF? Priests Start Scrapping In Church, Hit Each Other With Brooms! [Video]

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The annual cleaning of one of Christianity's holiest churches deteriorated into a brawl between rival clergy Wednesday, as dozens of monks feuding over sacred space at the Church of the Nativity battled each other with brooms until police intervened.



The ancient church, built over the traditional site of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem, is shared by three Christian denominations — Roman Catholics, Armenians and Greek Orthodox.


Wednesday's fight erupted between Greek and Armenian clergy, with both sides accusing each other of encroaching on parts of the church to which they lay claim.



The monks were tidying up the church ahead of Orthodox Christmas celebrations in early January, following celebrations by Western Christians on Dec. 25. The fight erupted between monks along the border of their respective areas. Some shouted and hurled brooms.



Palestinian security forces rushed in to break up the melee, and no serious injuries were reported. A Palestinian police spokesman would not immediately comment.



A fragile status quo governs relations among the denominations at the ancient church, and to repair or clean a part of the structure is to own it, according to accepted practice. That means that letting other sects clean part of the church could allow one to gain ground at another's expense. Similar fights have taken place during the same late-December cleaning effort in the past.



Tensions between rival clergy at the church have been a fact of life there for centuries and have often been caught up in international politics.



In the 1800s, friction between the denominations at the church — each backed by foreign powers — became so fraught that Russian Czar Nicholas I deployed troops along the Danube to threaten a Turkish sultan who had been favoring the Catholics over the Orthodox.



Those disagreements threaten the integrity of the church itself, which was originally built 1,500 years ago and parts of which have fallen into disrepair. Although the roof has needed urgent work for decades, and leaking rainwater has ruined much of the priceless artwork inside, a renovation has been delayed all these years by disagreements among the denominations over who would pay.



Only recently, the Palestinian Authority brokered an agreement to move ahead with replacing the roof, and officials hope work will begin in 2012.



Source: New York Daily News

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Wierd Insurance Claim Farmer loses Iphone Inside a Cow

The farmer who lost his iPhone INSIDE a cow and mum who baked her Nokia: Britain's weirdest mobile phone insurance claims revealed

A farmer who lose his iPhone inside a cow after using it as flashlight during the birth of a calf has topped a list of weirdest mobile insurance claims.
A woman who baked her Nokia 6303i into her daughter’s birthday cake and a man who climbed up a tree to film a Blur gig also featuring in the poll, according to www.MobileInsurance.co.uk.
Another person filed a claim after losing their phone over the side of a cruise ship while trying to re-enact the famous 'I'm king of the world' line from the film, Titanic.

Mooving on: A farmer who lost his phone while birthing a calf has topped a poll of weirdest mobile phone insurance claims
While a woman in her 30s claimed a seagull swooped down and took her Samsung Galaxy from her hand while she was walking her dog on a beach.
Although, not all the claims were humorous, with one woman admitting that she'd thrown her HTC Desire X at her boyfriend after she found out he had been cheating on her.

Last month the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) said that the number of claims had gone up by 63 per cent compared to last year. However, it’s rarely revealed what types of claims have been made by customers.
While the credibility of some of the claims was questioned a spokesman from the mobile phone insurance comparison website said that all the stories were fully investigated.

The top ten weird mobile phone insurance claims
1. A farmer in Devon claimed his phone had disappeared inside the back end of one of his cows when he’d been using the torch on his iPhone whilst assisting the cow during calving. The phone later made an appearance, but was damaged.
2. A woman in her early 40s from Nottingham claimed that she’d baked her Nokia 6303i into a Victoria Sponge she’d been making for her daughter’s birthday. It didn’t endure the heat of gas mark 5.
3. A woman in her 30s claimed she’d been walking her Cocker Spaniel on Barry Island beach, Wales, when a seagull swooped down and took her Samsung Galaxy from her hand.
4. A woman in her late 20s from Bristol claimed the vibration function on her BlackBerry Bold 9900 phone had stopped working whilst she was using it as an adult toy.
5. A 40 year old construction worker said his iPhone 4S had fallen out of his back pocket when he pulled his jeans down before sitting on the toilet. Not realising, he went about his business and flushed the chain. The phone didn’t flush, but underwent serious water damage.
6. A man in his 30s claimed he’d been filming monkeys from the car window in Longleat Safari Park with his HTC One X when a monkey climbed on the roof and snatched it.
7. A couple re-enacting the 'I'm king of the world!' scene from Titanic lost their phone over the side of their cruise ship, whilst trying to take a photo of themselves.
8. A pyrotechnician was setting up a show for the National Fireworks Championships in Plymouth, and having left his iPhone 3GS within the 'blast zone', it was nowhere to be found when he returned post-show, having been fired 3,000 feet into the air before exploding in a stunning display.
9. A woman in her 20s from Liverpool admitted she’d thrown her HTC Desire X at her boyfriend, whom she’d discovered was cheating, but it missed him and hit a wall; breaking the handset.
10. Rather than paying £60 for a ticket to see Blur at their sell-out Hyde Park shows, one customer tried to film the event on his iPhone from up a nearby tree - he got a little too excited as the band came on stage though, and dropped his phone onto the ground below.