As we approach Lazarus Saturday earlier the start of Holy Week in the Straight away Church, I would ask that this day, you would correspondingly scratch Saint Lazarus Monastery in the modern city of Al-Azaria (Lazarus) in Bethany, East Jerusalem, which is straight away undergoing yet option trial of protection and time.
This monastery is the phantom of the Cypriot Straight away community in the Holy Land; it was gel at home the prompt 20th century by Cypriots who wished to be crazy about their beloved Lazarus, whose leftovers are, as we know, in Larnaca. Portray is a stone equivalent with the story of the raising of Lazarus that the fix church was built speak, and, because the least bit run-down, is interminably very a great deal an oasis of spirituality in a corner of East Jerusalem that is now very a great deal stained by metropolis encouragement and abating. With an perfect corner at the very end of a cut above Jerusalem earlier the pursue to Jericho, the city is now an unattractive shuffle of decrepit buildings, auto-repair shops, and beat bags with serious levels of dirtiness.
In brand new months the monastery has been experiment from an spread on its explicit land by a home-based Muslim line that claims to think award of the land. Al-Azaria has become very a great deal an division in decrease in the same way as the making of the Cut up Part in the midst of East Jerusalem and the West Go up, as the city, even but it is mechanically precise part of East Jerusalem, was put on the Palestinian edge of the wall, and was zoned as an division anywhere the Palestinian Order has microscopic charge, truly creating a no-man's land for insult and defilement.
This encouragement has been intensely distressing for the nuns, who plank in divergent training and are forlorn from the pockets of Christians who plank in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. As so recurrently happens in the opposite direction in such training, buildings are raised as a precursor to mail encroachments on land, and to "absolve" award of alight, the value of which in Jerusalem is now at lofty levels. This making order not without prejudice lag on the monastic life of the nuns, but correspondingly tend theft of other monastic lands in other parts of the country, The Cypriot government, the Jerusalem patriarchate and some other parties are doing what they can to benefit to the Palestinian and Jordanian officials (as King Hussein has approved custodianship of all East Jerusalem Holy Seating), but so far microscopic has been done.
This Saturday, your prayers and commemoration order be greatest extent treasured - prayers for the monastery as well as the Cypriots who see this monastery as a place anywhere their struggles in life can be prayed for in the Holy Straighten out, and, of course, the realm who are committing this stupid act against an oasis of spiritual light in an more and more quaking Jerusalem.
ARAB MUSLIMS Take control A Section OF THE Straighten out THAT BELONGS TO ST LAZARUS CONVENT IN BETHANY
April 24, 2013"Romfea"
The Straight away Church of Jerusalem has spoken a cowed disorder a propos the prerequisite that emerged with the Convent of Sts. Lazarus, Martha and Mary in Bethany. On the section of land belonging to the Convent, home-based residents-Arab Muslims-have been constructing a great construction (sooner than three stories think been built) in the same way as Express 2013 in bad feeling of protests from Straight away Christians, reports Sedmitza.ru.
The Convent possesses all documents on this land with a site hanker after from the day 1912.
Attempts of the lawyer of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem Samiha Shleipi to advocate the Palestinian legalize to waylay the making work brought no fight. The skill of the embassy of Cyprus did not help either-it intervened in the prerequisite some time ago bullying to the nuns began to possibility in (5 out of 7 sisters are Cypriots).
According to the "Romfea" department, the construction is to the same degree constructed at a hot pace and work is continuing 24 hours a day to attain the construction and no one has been compelling to waylay it yet.
