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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - Rival groups of monks wielding crowbars and 
sledgehammers clashed Wednesday over control of a 1,000-year-old 
monastery in a community regarded as the cradle of Orthodox 
Christianity, police said.

Seven monks were injured and transported by boat to receive treatment. 
They were released after several hours, police said. No one was arrested 
but three monks were banned from re-entering the Orthodox sanctuary of 
Mount Athos, located on a self-governing peninsula in northern Greece.