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A renewed attack crisis Ethiopian monks On the monastery of the Sultan owned by the Coptic Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, after they raised a huge flag for their country inside the monastery, so that the Egyptian monks responded by drawing the Egyptian flag on one of the doors of the monastery to prove their identity; Which blew up the situation between the two sides before the police intervened to resolve the crisis.
The monk Anthony of Jerusalem said in an exclusive interview with"Sky News Arabia"This crisis is recurring every year. Last year, the Ethiopian monks put the Ethiopian flag on their tent in the monastery, which is a violation of the customary matters for their placement inside the monastery. According to the papers, their stay is temporary and they are treated as guests, and therefore they may not put anything that proves ownership .
He explained that the Ethiopian monks made many violations before that to prove their ownership of the monastery, by removing the classic signs from the icons andCoptic writingsThus, in order to avoid disputes and clashes this year, we sent to the Israeli police and many other parties to inform them not to put the flag again, but they did not respond and actually put it.
official added Coptic Endowments in Jerusalem: "We drew the flag of Egypt on a door next to the monastery. We have the key to it, so the Ethiopians revolted and began to clash and insult us, and they tried to remove the flag, but we confronted them until the police arrived, who asked to resolve the conflict, but the clashes renewed between them and the Israeli police when someone tried to throw paint On the flag to erase it".
As a result, the Egyptian monks closed the door that represents The main aisle of the Church of the Holy Sepulcherbefore the Ethiopians asked them to open it to enable them to perform prayers.
Anthony of Jerusalem said: "They asked us to open the corridor that we close every day at sunset, and we acceded to their request on the condition that we would not be exposed to us again.".
He indicated that he had contacted Egyptian Church regarding that crisis, as well as the Ministry of Egyptian Foreign Which confirmed that serious efforts are being made to solve the problem.
Historic property
As long as the Egyptian Church confirmed its historical ownership of the Sultan Monastery in Jerusalem, as a result of the attempts of the Ethiopian monks to control it after the church hosted them, they resorted to the Supreme Court in Israel, which ruled in favor of Coptic Orthodox ChurchHowever, the ruling has not yet been implemented.
The monastery is one of the most important Arab holy places located in the city of East Jerusalem, specifically in the Christian Quarter next to Queen Helena Church For the Coptic Orthodox, and the corridor leading to the wall of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
The history of Deir al-Sultan in Jerusalem, according to the data of the Egyptian Church, dates back to the reign of the Sultan Abd Al-Malik Bin Marwan "684- 705"which he gave to the Copts, he was called Sultan’s MonasteryThe ownership of the monastery was confirmed by the Coptic Orthodox Church, during the reign of the Sultan Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi In the twelfth century.
In the latter half of the seventeenth century, the Abyssinians resorted to the Coptic Church to find a temporary shelter for them to reside in until their problem was resolved and they returned to their places that had moved in 1654, to the Roman and Armenian Churches due to the inability to Ethiopian Church To pay taxes, the Coptic Church hosted the Abyssinian monks as guests in some rooms of Deir al-Sultan on a temporary basis.
In 1820, the Coptic Church undertook restoration work in Deir al-Sultan, which necessitated the evacuation of the monastery from all its inhabitants; The Copts and the Abyssinians, on October 17, 1820, were allowed to return as guests to the monastery in 1840 AD, as they were members of the Coptic Church, while some stakeholders from foreign governments sowed the seeds of schism between Copts and Ethiopians They encouraged the Abyssinian monks to make repeated attempts to seize the monastery.
The Abyssinian monks requested, in 1906, to carry out the restoration of the monastery as an initial step in an attempt to seize it. Therefore, the Coptic Church quickly submitted a request to carry out the restoration, which was approved by the official authorities at the time, thus confirming the entitlement of the Copts as stakeholders and to dispose of Sultan’s Monastery.
On April 25, 1970, during the stay of Easter Mass In the Church of the Resurrection, the Israeli government sent military forces to enable the Abyssinian monks from Deir al-Sultan, and they handed over the new keys to the Ethiopians. Metropolitan of the Copts And everyone with him to Deir al-Sultan.
In response to this, the Coptic Metropolitan filed a lawsuit before Israeli Supreme Court Which unanimously approved returning the keys to the two churches and the doors of the corridor to the hands of the Copts on March 16, 1971, but the Israeli government has still refrained from implementing the ruling of the Supreme Court so far, despite the numerous lawsuits submitted to it.
The monk Anthony of Jerusalem stressed that despite obtaining a court ruling regarding their entitlement to the monastery, the competent authorities did not implement the decision due to the inadequacy of the security conditions to do so.
And he said: " this land Egyptian land And property for our country before it was Coptic".
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A renewed attack crisis Ethiopian monks On the monastery of the Sultan owned by the Coptic Orthodox Church in Jerusalem, after they raised a huge flag for their country inside the monastery, so that the Egyptian monks responded by drawing the Egyptian flag on one of the doors of the monastery to prove their identity; Which blew up the situation between the two sides before the police intervened to resolve the crisis.
In an exclusive interview with “Sky News Arabia”, the monk Anthony of Jerusalem said that this crisis is repeated every year. Last year, the Ethiopian monks put the Ethiopian flag on their tent in the monastery, which is a violation of the customary matters for their placement inside the monastery, according to the papers, their residence They are temporary and treated as guests, and therefore they may not put anything that proves ownership.
He explained that the Ethiopian monks made many violations before that to prove their ownership of the monastery, by removing the classic signs from the icons andCoptic writingsThus, in order to avoid disputes and clashes this year, we sent to the Israeli police and many other parties to inform them not to put the flag again, but they did not respond and actually put it.
official added Coptic Endowments in JerusalemWe drew the flag of Egypt on a door next to the monastery. We have the key to it, so the Ethiopians revolted and began to clash and insult us, and they tried to remove the flag, but we confronted them until the police arrived, who asked to resolve the conflict, but the clashes renewed between them and the Israeli police when someone tried to Paint is applied to the flag to erase it.
As a result, the Egyptian monks closed the door that represents The main aisle of the Church of the Holy Sepulcherbefore the Ethiopians asked them to open it to enable them to perform prayers.
And Anthony of Jerusalem said: “They asked us to open the corridor that we close every day with sunset, and we responded to their request on the condition that they do not touch us again.”
He indicated that he had contacted Egyptian Church regarding that crisis, as well as the Ministry of Egyptian Foreign Which confirmed that serious efforts are being made to solve the problem.
Historic property
As long as the Egyptian Church confirmed its historical ownership of the Sultan Monastery in Jerusalem, as a result of the attempts of the Ethiopian monks to control it after the church hosted them, they resorted to the Supreme Court in Israel, which ruled in favor of Coptic Orthodox ChurchHowever, the ruling has not yet been implemented.
The monastery is one of the most important Arab holy places located in the city of East Jerusalem, specifically in the Christian Quarter next to Queen Helena Church For the Coptic Orthodox, and the corridor leading to the wall of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
The history of Deir al-Sultan in Jerusalem, according to the data of the Egyptian Church, dates back to the reign of the Sultan Abd Al-Malik Bin Marwan “684-705AD”, which he gave to the Copts, was called Sultan’s MonasteryThe ownership of the monastery was confirmed by the Coptic Orthodox Church, during the reign of the Sultan Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi In the twelfth century.
In the latter half of the seventeenth century, the Abyssinians resorted to the Coptic Church to find a temporary shelter for them to reside in until their problem was resolved and they returned to their places that had moved in 1654, to the Roman and Armenian Churches due to the inability to Ethiopian Church To pay taxes, the Coptic Church hosted the Abyssinian monks as guests in some rooms of Deir al-Sultan on a temporary basis.
In 1820, the Coptic Church undertook restoration work in Deir al-Sultan, which necessitated the evacuation of the monastery from all its inhabitants; The Copts and the Abyssinians, on October 17, 1820, were allowed to return as guests to the monastery in 1840 AD, as they were members of the Coptic Church, while some stakeholders from foreign governments sowed the seeds of schism between Copts and Ethiopians They encouraged the Abyssinian monks to make repeated attempts to seize the monastery.
The Abyssinian monks requested, in 1906, to carry out the restoration of the monastery as an initial step in an attempt to seize it. Therefore, the Coptic Church quickly submitted a request to carry out the restoration, which was approved by the official authorities at the time, thus confirming the entitlement of the Copts as stakeholders and to dispose of Sultan’s Monastery.
On April 25, 1970, during the stay of Easter Mass In the Church of the Resurrection, the Israeli government sent military forces to enable the Abyssinian monks from Deir al-Sultan, and they handed over the new keys to the Ethiopians. Metropolitan of the Copts And everyone with him to Deir al-Sultan.
In response to this, the Coptic Metropolitan filed a lawsuit before Israeli Supreme Court Which unanimously approved returning the keys to the two churches and the doors of the corridor to the hands of the Copts on March 16, 1971, but the Israeli government has still refrained from implementing the ruling of the Supreme Court so far, despite the numerous lawsuits submitted to it.
The monk Anthony of Jerusalem stressed that despite obtaining a court ruling regarding their entitlement to the monastery, the competent authorities did not implement the decision due to the inadequacy of the security conditions to do so.
He said: “This land Egyptian land and property of our country before it was Coptic.”