http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp
While we may be glad that modern Christianity is less violent than it has been in the past there is still the risk of violence when the churches come into conflict.
In this case it is the various churches' rights over the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Father Athanasius states:
"... I refused to close the door to our chapel and then the Greeks, priests and deacons and acolytes attacked the Israeli police standing by the door and I was pushed away and fell down, and someone was kicking me, and more police arrived..."
and
"I'm really scared someone's going to get killed."
The author of the article writes:
While I was in Jerusalem investigating the contribution the world's Christian powers have made to the world's most intractable conflict, I witnessed two major fights between churchmen and many minor ones.
The second incident, in July that year, landed 11 monks in hospital. The argument was over whether or not an elderly Egyptian monk should be permitted to sit under a eucalyptus tree on the Ethiopians' roof terrace.
And these are the mainstream, moderate churches.