The Diocese of Philippi on the Greece-Bulgaria agreement on the relics: "Necessary and complete restoration of the looting"translated

The return of the stolen religious and cultural relics from Bulgaria, following the reaching of an agreement between the governments of Greece and Bulgaria, is being put into public debate by the Holy Metropolis of Philippi, Neapolis and Thassos. Having herself experienced in her wider ecclesiastical province in Eastern Macedonia the consequences of the "Bulgarian atrocities and brutalities" at the expense of the Greeks during the First and Second Balkan Wars, with her text under the title: "The Greek-Bulgarian agreement ... "Historical relics and traces of sacrifices for national justice"", she refers to the sacred relics which had been removed more than a hundred years ago from Holy Metropolises and Holy Monasteries of Northern Greece.

At the same time, it expresses the firm and non-negotiable position and claim of the local Church regarding the necessary and complete restoration of the looting of religious and cultural relics, in accordance with the moral order and international law, as well as regarding the healing of historical wounds with the consequences of the horrific situations experienced by our martyred ancestors, and which only the virtue of "sorry" can be…