Maximos Charakopoulos on Sinai Monastery, terrorist attack in Jordan and the return of relicstranslated

"It is in principle a positive development that an agreement was reached between the Holy Monastery of Agia Catherine in Sinai and the Egyptian state. I believe that it opens a more optimistic page for the future of the Holy Monastery of Sinai in the long-suffering region of the Middle East, which ensures its Greek Orthodox character in perpetuity". The above was emphasized by the Secretary General of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy (DSO), Member of the Parliament of the Hellenes, Dr. Maximos Charakopoulos, speaking to the Voice of Greece and the journalist Mr. Giorgos Dionysopoulos. The General Secretary of the DSO underlined that "the Monastery of Saint Catherine may be the oldest Christian monastery in continuous operation, but unfortunately until now it had no legal status in the Egyptian state. Various conquerors may have passed through the area, they all certainly respected the Monastery, there is the nickname Achtinames of the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, which urges the Muslims to respect it, but there was this legal gap in the Egyptian legal system.

I think it is a positive development that the Monastery reached an agreement with the Egyptian State. The agreement is welcomed by all the ambassadorial Patriarchates of...