By on June 1, 2013 In News, Religion, Russia
Hilarion, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, revealed that Greece is under the pressure of international organizations to lift the prohibition on entry for women to Mount Athos, called avaton (Άβατον) in Greek.
In a press release he issued on the occasion of the visit of the Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia, and Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill I, Metropolitan Hilarion underlined that this is happening in order for Mount Athos to be opened for tourism to both sexes, “but so far Greece’s resistance on the matter is solid and we hope that it continues to be so, because any kind of changes in Athos and around it can have a fatal impact on this island of spirituality, which constitutes a common legacy for all the orthodox world.”