Bible thumping

"Peace be with you. Now, you wanna piece of this, heretic?"

"Jesus died for you. Now eat rosary, Franciscan punk!"

Fistfights broke out yesterday between Christians gathered on the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ.

"There was lots of hitting going on. Police were hit, monks were hit ... there were people with bloodied faces," said a witness in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, reputed to be Golgotha where Christ was crucified, and the site of the tomb where he was buried.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Punch-up at tomb of Jesus