Tensions and concern over the strategic Monastery of Agios Gerasimos in Jerichotranslated

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The resignation of the blessed abbot of the Holy Monastery of Agios Gerasimos the Jordanite opened the bag of Aeolos and brought disturbance and concern for the Monastery that he resurrected and served for over 50 years.

This tension has been noted in recent days in relation to the continuation of the operation of the Holy Monastery, located on the outskirts of the Palestinian city of Jericho in the West Bank.

Cypriot believers and pilgrims express their concern due to the decision of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem to evacuate the monastery from its monks and the Arabs, residents of Jericho, who are employed in the Monastery in manual and agricultural work.

A few days before the departure of the blessed Abbot, the Patriarchate of Jerusalem appointed a three-member committee to manage the transitional period until the Holy Synod convenes and appoints a new Abbot.

Immediately after, the monks were asked to move from the monastery temporarily and to prohibit the entry of the people who work there in order to make possible the inventory of the property of the Monastery.

The inventory process is an act that when it comes to defining…