Sinai Monastery: Support without purpose from Mount Athostranslated

The Holy Community today clarifies with its clarifying announcement today that the recent letter to the Archbishop of Sinai, Fara and Raithos Mr. Simeon and the Sinaitic Brotherhood about him has the sole motive of the support in Christ to the Sinaitic Fathers and no other expediency. At the same time, she makes it clear that her position should not be politically exploited and no other interpretation should be attributed to the content of the letter of support.

The announcement of the Holy Community in detail:

The issue concerns the entire Orthodoxy The Holy Community of Mount Athos in its letter to the Archbishop of Sinai, Faran and Raitho, Mr. Simeon, had mentioned that the preservation of Sinai does not concern only the Sinaitic Fathers but the entire Orthodoxy.

"Our position is simple and clear: The historical, monastic, institutional, legal and property status of the Holy Monastery of the Theophanes of Sinai must remain unchanged as it is, without any change. What has been respected for sixteen centuries History, it must remain respected today. And the preservation of Sinai does not only concern the Sinai Fathers. It concerns the entire Orthodoxy, because the overthrow of an ancient...