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Deir al-Sultan Monastery is Egyptian land inside Jerusalem: Pope Tawadros II
Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark Pope Tawadros II on Sunday said that the Deir al-Sultan Monastery is Egyptian land inside Jerusalem, resolving controversy over the monastery’s ownership. In the editorial of the official Al-Karaza magazine, Pope Tawadros II said: “The monastery is Egyptian land inside the city of Jerusalem, and the monastery remained in the possession of the Copts until the seventeenth century AD when they hosted Ethiopian monks after they abandoned their property there because of their inability to pay taxes to the Ottoman occupation authorities.” He explained that the Ethiopians continued to live in Deir al-Sultan, hosted by the Copts until 1820, and

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