Meeting of PASOK President with Archbishop Sinai Damianos in Cairo
“The Orthodox of the whole world are anxious about what is happening in Saint Catherine of Sinai, because it is one of the most powerful symbols of our Orthodoxy, one of the oldest monasteries,” Nikos Androulakis noted during his meeting on Thursday night at Kairos. Damianos, abbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai and Archimandrite Porphyrios.
The president of the PASOK-Conception stressed that “we also want respect for the freedom of faith, but also respect for the ownership of the monastery.” “After all, the Egyptian government in the folder that had sent to UNESCO to integrate St. Catherine in the World Heritage Sites, includes all these issues,” he said and informed Archbishop Sinai that at the initiative of the Socialist Group for the European Communist Party. Developments on the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine.
“It is important to internationalize the issue in order to exert pressure and find the best possible solution. We will all push together to find a solution. We have historical relations of friendship with the Egyptian people and we all must do our debt in order to respect the Egyptian authority for this monastery, which for 15 centuries have respected those who have exercised power in this place. We will be with you, ”Mr. Androulakis said.
Archbishop Sinai expressed his gratitude to the Greek people for the spiritual reflexes he showed. “We are asking the Greek people a fair and strong but not a fan of the Greek people,” he said. The monastery’s spokesman, Archimandrite Porphyrios, said that “Egypt started the trials. As evidenced by things, he may have wanted to build Athens and lacked the Acropolis. But we are not willing to capitulate and accept something we received from the 5th century and is not ours but we are going to deliver it to the next. “