His unequivocal condemnation to the decision of the Egyptian authorities who put “padlock” in her historical monastery St. Catherine of Sinai, expressed Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Hieronymus Without hiding his “immense sadness and reasonable anger”, he called for mobilization from every Greek and every international authority for the fact that “the property of the monastery is being deprived and confiscated, and this spiritual beacon of Orthodoxy and Hellenism is now facing a matter of real survival”.
“I don’t want and I can’t believe that today the Hellenism and the Orthodoxy They are experiencing one more historical “fall”” The Archbishop stressed in a statement and said that “we cannot allow this”.
The Archbishop blamed her Egyptian government that he decided “despite the opposite recent commitments Egyptian president To the Greek Prime Minister, to overthrow any notion of law and, in essence, to attempt to extinguish the monastery itself, by denying itself its entire function, its very worship and spiritual work, similarly cultural. “
‘I call every Greek and every international authority perceive the highest stakes and to return to the protection of the fundamental religious freedoms of his Holy Monastery Sinai“, The Archbishop said and added:” I strongly condemn any attempt to change the regime, which has been in force for 15 centuries and appeal to the Greek Government responsible and personally to the Prime Minister. Kyriakos Mitsotakis To act directly the appropriate, so that the normal and legal order can be reinstated and not to substantially abolish the Holy Monastery. ”
In detail the statement by Archbishop Hieronymus
“After yesterday’s scandalous decision of the violent violation of human and in particular religious liberties issued by the Egyptian judicial authorities, the oldest Orthodox Christian Monument, the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine of God,
In essence, the Egyptian government itself has decided, despite the opposite of the Egyptian president’s recent commitments to the Greek Prime Minister, to overthrow any notion of law and, in essence, to attempt to extinguish the monastery itself, in its very function, its own, its own, its own, and its own.
The property of the monastery is deprived and confiscated and this spiritual beacon of Orthodoxy and Hellenism is now facing the issue of true survival.
With immense sadness and reasonable anger, I call on every Greek and every international authority to perceive the highest stakes and to immediately turn to protect the fundamental religious freedoms of the Holy Monastery of Sinai.
I strongly condemn any attempt to change the regime, which has been in the area for 15 centuries, and I appeal to the responsible Greek government and personally to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to act immediately, so that the normal and legal order can be reinstated.
I wholeheartedly express my brotherly solidarity both to the Brotherhood and to her professor, His Eminence Archbishop Sinai and Raito Mr. Damianos, as well as to the Greek brothers, who are sacrificing in the wider area of Sinai.
I do not want and cannot believe, finally, that today Hellenism and Orthodoxy are experiencing yet another historical “fall”.
We cannot allow this.»