The agreement for the Sinai Monastery is in the final stretch - Communication with the Egyptian authoritiestranslated

The first step in the process of reaching an agreement between the Sinai Monastery and the Egyptian government has taken place. According to secure information of "Kathimerini", there was communication between the Sinai Monastery and the Egyptian authorities, to whom the intention to accept the agreement was conveyed. The same sources state that what we are now expecting is an update to Athens from the Archbishop of Sinai, Simeon, that there was an agreement in order to request the Ministry of Foreign Affairs not to proceed with the issuance of the decision of the Supreme Court of Egypt and to set a schedule for the signing of the agreement.

The Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Alexandria and the Churches of Greece and Cyprus had previously secured support for Archbishop Sinai.

It is recalled that the postponement given for the announcement of the decision of the Egyptian Supreme Court on the appeals filed against the decision of the Ismailia Court of Appeal on the ownership status of the monastery expires tomorrow.

One appeal has been filed by the monastery and the second by the Egyptian State, while the talks on the legal and institutional framework...