In Jerusalem is located from the afternoon of Good Friday the Greek mission, headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Andreas Katsaniotisin order to attend at the touch ceremony of the Holy Lightwhich will take place today, Holy Saturday, at the Panieros Church of the Resurrection.
The Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs will receive the Holy Light from the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III, with whom he will also have a meeting. The arrival of Agios Fotos at the Athens “Eleftherios Venizelos” airport is expected to take place around 18:00 on Holy Saturday afternoon and will then take place its distribution throughout Greece.
«I will have the honor to attend the ceremony of the touch of the Holy Light and to carry it home with the resurrection message. Especially these days, due to the situation in the martyred Ukraine where a historical part of Hellenism lives, the message about the importance of life and peace remains extremely relevant.“, Said Andreas Katsaniotis.
In addition to the Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Exarch of the Holy Sepulcher in Greece Archimandrite Raphael, MPs Maximos Harakopoulos, Stavros Keletsis and Ioannis Sarakiotis, the governor of Western Greece Nektarios Farmakis and others participate.
It is noted in an announcement of the Deputy Foreign Minister that the shipment to and from Israel is made by a special Aegean flight at no cost to the Greek state, while the distribution of the Holy Light in the Greek Territory will be done with flights of Aegean and Sky express.
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