For unprecedented murmur in IM St. Catherine Sinai and the controversy of (paved) Abbot and monks’ gathering, The MEP and Member of the Security & Defense Committee and Coordinator of the European Parliament and Constitutional Affairs Committee and Coordinator and Coordinator. Nicolas Farantouris.
In his statements on Sunday afternoon from Brussels He called for “the restoration of the classroom in the Holy Station and the maintenance of the ownership status without any assignment or compromise”.
As he revealed, Convocation of the Summit of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem For the unprecedented crisis, which, as he characteristically said, some “fate of Athens have fired”, while at the same time asking a number of questions about the role and responsibilities of the monastic community and the defined abbot:
“I saw announcements about the legal representative, etc. From various sides.
The questions, however, are:
a) Who makes the decisions and legitimizes the abbot? The gathering of the monks or the abbot himself (himself)?
b) Was the “entrance” of the defined abbot to the Sinai Sinai and the expulsion of the monks?
(c) Does the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Ministry of Education, Religions and Sports do?
The announcement of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Earlier on Sunday afternoon, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem was announced, with which it provides support to the monks and their synagogue:
“The Patriarchate of Jerusalem fully supports the Sinai Brotherhood, recognizing the rights of the Fathers of the Monastery, as they have been guaranteed by its fundamental regulations.
The support is expressed by the context of the spiritual and normal jurisdiction that the Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Monastery of Sin.
In this context, the Patriarchate, it supports the Greek state and all the relevant side -by -side cooperation, in order to ensure the normal order and the restraint.