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Worshippers clash at Jerusalem shrine

Jerusalem - Clashes at holy site
Jerusalem - Clashes at holy site

Greek Orthodox and Armenian worshippers have clashed in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Israeli police moved into the shrine, which Christians believe contains the tomb of Jesus, to restore order and said they arrested two clerics.

Dozens of worshippers, dressed in the vestments of the Greek Orthodox and Armenian denominations, traded kicks and punches, knocking down tapestries and toppling decorations at the site in Arab East Jerusalem.

The brawl erupted during the Feast of the Cross, a ceremony in which the Armenian community commemorates what it believes was the fourth century discovery of the cross upon which Jesus was crucified.