The intervention of the Egyptian Police to remove the monks’ coup d’etat, who were expelled yesterday from the Sinai Monastery but remain outside the gate and are trying to get in again, was asked by Archbishop Sinai Damianos. According to Kathimerini, the situation remains complicated and difficult.

Archbishop Sinai, as his associates say, is inside the monastery, the rebels are trying to invade, while launching threats against his life and for judicial moves against him.

Egyptian police officials, who in recent hours do not respond to calls made near the monastery, but have not so far intervened to prevent the coup d’etat in their movements.

The same sources say that, on the contrary, there have been resignations to be admitted again by the rebels inside the monastery.

Yesterday, with the intervention of Archbishop Sinai, Damianos, and in consultation with the monks who support him, were removed from the monastery.

In his statement, Archbishop Damianos said:

“I arrived this afternoon of August 26 at the Monastery of St. Catherine with the aim of transforming and discussing the small group of monks’ coup d’etat, a tactic I faithfully adhered to all the time, armed with patience and fatherly love.

These monks had planned without my approval meeting to amend the Rules of Procedure of the Monastery in absentia that in accordance with the Regulation I always chair.

My monks attacked me and detained me, as they had done during my last presence in the monastery. The monks who did not participate in the coup defended my humility and the monastery with self -sacrifice the Archbishop and the Monastery and repelled the illegal coup d’etat outside the walls of the monastery.

A General Assembly was already convened with the present monks because the coup d’etat with the penalty of community were unable to participate and a new summary of the monastery that constituted it was a hierarch. Porphyrios Kanavakis, Right, Hierom. Akakios Span, a vicelaver and mon. Ephraim sheep, housekeeper.

The monastery returned to legality and regularity.

Thanks are due to the patron saint and a supervisor of the Monastery of Saint Megalomyra Catherine, who preserves and protects her monastery from the devil’s panties. A great apology is due to the Sinai Monastery and from the crew of the Church because smallness and ambitions of some have become the cause of the faithful and instead of being a monks to be light on the secular with this situation, we worked on the contrary. With a lot of humiliation and crushing we humbly apologize. ”