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Since 1972, a brotherhood of monks who have left the Greek Orthodox Church have retained control of the Esphigmenou Monastery on Mt. Athos. “Rebel monks” have effectively been squatting in a monastery in the self-governed territory of the church, defying the orders of the Patriarch in Istanbul. Police efforts to evict them have been met with stones and Molotov cocktails. Durrie Bouscaren reports from Istanbul.