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EO Monks: Rebel order fights rivals in monastery

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From: http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061222/REPOSITORY/612220340/1013/48HOURS or http://www.yorkdispatch.com/nationworld/ci_4886379

..Wednesday's violence involved rival groups of monks carrying crowbars and sledgehammers - and is part of a long-standing dispute between legally recognized monks and a rebel monastery that opposes efforts by the Orthodox Church to improve relations with the Vatican
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The Athos dispute was inflamed three weeks ago, when Pope Benedict XVI met Bartholomew on a visit to Turkey, where the patriarch is based...

Your ideas?

Let's pray fro Patriarch Bartholemw, who had to face these problem due to his ecumenism :crossrc:
 
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