Bible Brawl
Blood flowed when a quiet Sunday morning church service turned into a brawl from hell.
The fight between two Apostolic church groups lasted for about two hours.
And it was only broken up when the cops were brought in.
When the dust settled, several worshippers were left with cuts, bruises and black eyes.
Some Sunday church suits were splattered with blood and others left for home with bandages instead of blessings.
One congregant even pulled a gun in church.
The man fired into the ground and hit a woman in the foot.
Fortunately she only suffered a broken shoe after the bullet narrowly missed her toes.
Cops say the elderly gunman and another one of the punching parishoners were arrested after the incident.
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Many of the church goers claim they "saw the light."
But they were probably just seeing stars after being whacked in the head.
Apparently the fight broke out when a former member of the Free Reformed Apostolic Church in Gugulethu's NY 82 rocked up at the Sunday service with a bus load of supporters.
Welcome Bam left the curch in 2000 and has had a rocky relationship with the congregation since, says bishop Caldwell Sineke.
It was Sineke's church that was violated by the outburst.
He says Bam entered the church with a group of men from Khayelitsha's Joseph Apolstolic Church.
"Bam started disrupting the service by speaking loudly." Sineke says.
He says Bam tried the same stunt in 2002 but he was persuaded to leave the church peacefully -- not this time.
Sineke says a minister asked him to leave and then all hell broke loose.
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Then the quiet Sunday worship turned into a scene from WWE's Summer Slam.
People swapped Bibles for stones and began pelting each other in front of the church.
Those moered with rocks were left dizzy and bloodied.
Others took sticks like Moses but instead of parting the Red Sea tried parting each other's skulls.
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Brilliant. From the Daily Voice, of course.
The fight between two Apostolic church groups lasted for about two hours.
And it was only broken up when the cops were brought in.When the dust settled, several worshippers were left with cuts, bruises and black eyes.
Some Sunday church suits were splattered with blood and others left for home with bandages instead of blessings.
One congregant even pulled a gun in church.
The man fired into the ground and hit a woman in the foot.
Fortunately she only suffered a broken shoe after the bullet narrowly missed her toes.
Cops say the elderly gunman and another one of the punching parishoners were arrested after the incident.
[...]
Many of the church goers claim they "saw the light."
But they were probably just seeing stars after being whacked in the head.
Apparently the fight broke out when a former member of the Free Reformed Apostolic Church in Gugulethu's NY 82 rocked up at the Sunday service with a bus load of supporters.
Welcome Bam left the curch in 2000 and has had a rocky relationship with the congregation since, says bishop Caldwell Sineke.
It was Sineke's church that was violated by the outburst.He says Bam entered the church with a group of men from Khayelitsha's Joseph Apolstolic Church.
"Bam started disrupting the service by speaking loudly." Sineke says.
He says Bam tried the same stunt in 2002 but he was persuaded to leave the church peacefully -- not this time.
Sineke says a minister asked him to leave and then all hell broke loose.
[...]
Then the quiet Sunday worship turned into a scene from WWE's Summer Slam.
People swapped Bibles for stones and began pelting each other in front of the church.
Those moered with rocks were left dizzy and bloodied.
Others took sticks like Moses but instead of parting the Red Sea tried parting each other's skulls.
[...]
Brilliant. From the Daily Voice, of course.
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