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Church ready to pay up for monastery restoration

10/04/13
THE CHURCH of Cyprus is ready to pay to restore the crumbling Apostolos Andreas monastery in the occupied Karpas peninsula, Archbishop Chrysostomos II said yesterday. The church is expected to put in the €2.5 million necessary for the first phase of a three-stage restoration process that is due to cost in total an estimated €6.0 million. The Primate said that the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was ready to go to tender to launch restoration works according to a study by Greece’s University of Patras. The Archbishop said the Church was ready to pay in as soon as the project was ready to begin. ... 6 comments
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