THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHRE may be safe after all:

Dispute over risk to Christian shrine

Mediators dismiss reports that crumbling Ethiopian monastery is a threat

Lauren Gelfond Feldinger | 12.11.08 | Issue 196 (The Art Newspaper)

JERUSALEM. Officials are disputing recent reports that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of Christianity’s holiest shrines, is at risk because of a crumbling Ethiopian Orthodox monastery on its roof.

Franciscan monk Father Athanasius Macora of the Custody of the Holy Land told The Art Newspaper that headlines across Israel and Europe in recent weeks making these charges were “erroneous” and “exaggerated”.

“The huts on Deir el-Sultan where the Ethiopian monks live are in very bad shape,” Father Athanasius said. “But the idea that the huts could knock down the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is absurd.”

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Background here.

It would be a relief to know that none of those monastic brawls will bring the place down.