“Decisive support in the Patriarchate of Antioch”
The fundamental issue of her legal personality IM Saint Catherine of Sinai In Greece It is permanently resolved by the bill of the Ministry of Education, Religions and Sports, whose debate today has been discussed by the Standing Committee on Education.
“The Greek state confirms its determination to support the mission and work of the Holy Monastery, to shield its interests,” the Minister of Education, Religions and Sports said, among other things. Sofia Zacharaki during the debate of the bill to the relevant House Committee.
At the same time, this bill is reinforced by the Higher Ecclesiastical Academies and Departments of Theological Schools of Higher Education Institutions by facilitating the study of foreign students. It is specifically envisaged that up to 10 candidates from the Patriarchate of Antioch, Syrian or Lebanon nationals, may be enrolled in any Department of Greek HEIs, on the proposal of the Patriarchate of Antioch and with the agreement of the Church of Greece and the Greek Foreign Minister.
“In this way the Greek state helps the Patriarchate of Antioch decisively to improve the level of its priests and we are restoring a direct channel of communication with the Greek Orthodox Syrian.” The minister stressed.
It is also of particular importance that in 2021, for the first time, a wide house of the Bektashis Alevites Thrace, a religious minority within the Muslim minority of Thrace, was licensed. Under Article 49 of the bill, this religious minority now acquires a substance in the legal world as a religious legal person of Law 4301/2014.
Sofia Zacharakis said: “Greece is taking another step towards the proper direction of protecting religious freedom. It is the first time that Greece has been recognized in Greece a religious legal entity of a Muslim religion. “
Also, the provisions of the bill are strengthened by the Schools of Apprenticeships of Clergymen (SMYK) and facilitates the attendance of foreign students and students in Ecclesiastical Schools. Students and students come from the old Patriarchate: Ecumenical Patriarchate, Patriarchate of Alexandria, Patriarchate of Antioch and Jerusalem.
In addition, the bill provides for a substantial strengthening of the public work of ecclesiastical institutions, contributing to their wider social contribution.
Finally, the anachronistic legislative framework for the licensing of places of worship that was in force from the Silk period is abolished. “We secure as a state the unkind exercise of the right of worship of all religious communities and their members, through the formation of a modern, complete and coherent legislative framework for the places of worship of religions,” the Minister of Education, Religions and Sports underlined.