JERUSALEM, Sept. 28 (UPI) -- Fights broke out among Christians at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, believed the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ.
"There was lots of hitting going on," one witness told the Guardian. "Police were hit, monks were hit ... there were people with bloodied faces."
The Guardian reported the Monday fight started during a procession to mark the discovery in 327 of the True Cross -- the cross believed to be the one upon which Jesus was crucified.
A Greek Orthodox cleric said Roman Catholic Franciscans left their chapel door open and that action was seen as disrespect and the fight started between priests and worshippers at the doorway dividing Orthodox and Franciscans, a police spokesman said.
The site, where six Christian denominations guard rights laid down in an Ottoman law of 1757 to separate parts of the Romanesque building, has been the scene of numerous disputes.
