Nuns killed for convent treasure
By Malcolm Brabant BBC News, Athens
Wednesday, 25 April 2007

The Peloponnese is home to many historic monasteries and churchesPolice in southern Greece are hunting the killers of two elderly nuns found suffocated in their hillside convent.

The motive appears to be robbery - the killers are believed to have taken a crucifix containing wood reputedly from the cross on which Jesus Christ died.

The two murdered nuns were 83 and 61 years old. the rest