Celebration of October 28 at I.N. St. Konstantinou and Eleni Kairoutranslated

In I.N. of Saints Constantine and Helen was solemnly celebrated on October 28. The benediction was performed by Metropolitan Nikodimos of Memphis, flanked by Bishop Hipponos Stefanos and Archimandrites Anthimos and Kallinikos. After the service, the ambassador of Greece in Cairo N. Papageorgiou welcomed the attendees, referred to the heroic resistance of Greece to the BPP and made a special mention of the victorious role of the Greeks in El Alamein. He spoke about the symbolism of celebrating anniversaries, noting that “Anniversaries are not an empty shirt. The cenotaph of the Greeks at Alamein exists so that the Greeks can glorify the heroes in a free homeland and ours."

The president of YKK, Mr. Kavalis, said that in the BPP, Greece repaid the foreign allies, with its sacrifice and blood, for the help it had received during the Revolution of '21. He referred to the Generation of '40 and especially to the participation of the Egyptian Greeks and the Dodecanese - who were then under Italian occupation - in critical battles in the Middle East and wished "for our three homelands, Greece, Cyprus and Egypt to live in peace, because only in this way can it be ensured...