With Archbishop Sinai DamianAbbot of the Holy Monastery of St. Catherine of Mount Sinai, and Archimandrite Porphyrios Nikos Androulakis met in Cairo on Thursday night in Cairo.

“Orthodox people around the world are anxious about what is happening in Sinai Catherine, because it is one of the most powerful symbols of our Orthodoxy, one of the oldest monasteries. We want and respect in freedom of faithbut also respect to the ownership status of the monastery. After all, the Egyptian government in the folder that had sent to UNESCO to include St. Catherine in the World Heritage Sites, includes all these issues. “ The opposition leader noted prologue and informed Archbishop Sinai that at the initiative of the Socialist Group, a request to the European Parliament was filed for a plenary in Strasbourg on the latest developments on the Holy Monastery.

“It is important to internationalize the issue in order to exert pressure and find the best possible solution. We will all push together to find a solution. We have historical relations of friendship with the Egyptian people and we all must do our debt in order to respect the Egyptian authority for this monastery, which for 15 centuries have respected those who have exercised power in this place. We will be with you » Nikos Androulakis underlined.

Archbishop Sinai Dame He expressed his gratitude to the Greek people for the spiritual reflexes he showed. “We ask the Greek people a fair and strong but not a fan of the Greek people.”

The monastery’s representative, Archimandrite Porphyrios He stressed that ‘Egypt started the trials. As evidenced by things, he may have wanted to build Athens and lacked the Acropolis. But we are not willing to capitulate and accept something we received from the 5th century and is not ours but we are going to deliver it to the next. “