“We Will not compromise our Monastery even if takes another 500 years with Israel which claims to be a democratic state and a state of religious freedom. I do not see any religious freedom in such a situation. Is allowing us to pray while guarding us considered religious freedom? Religious freedom is giving us our religious place, and our rights as Church”.
Interview with H.E Anba Antoios Archbishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East on Israeli Police Assaulting Coptic Monks in Jerusalem
