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The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, standing on a site believed to be that of Christ's Resurrection, is managed by six different Christian sects under a complex set of protocols dating from the Ottoman Empire. Each sect guards its rights very jealously, and there are frequent petty conflicts. The keys to the main entrance of the church have been held by a Muslim family since the 12th century because the Christians do not trust one another. In 2002 a Coptic monk placed his chair in a section of the ...