Monks evicted from contested monastery

Jerusalem - Court officials have evicted a group of monks from a contested monastery near Jerusalem, breaking down the door of…

Jerusalem - Court officials have evicted a group of monks from a contested monastery near Jerusalem, breaking down the door of a chapel and carrying them out. After a long-running and heated legal battle, on Sunday bailiffs turned the seven Greek Catholic or Melkite monks out of the monastery on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The monastery is owned by another Catholic order, the Franciscan Custodian of the Holy Land, which won a court case to evict the monks.

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