“We do not betray the sacred!”: The Balkans rose up against the Montenegrin schismatics
In Montenegro, numerous prayer services and religious processions against the anti-church law were held on Sunday evening in Niksic, Tivat, Beran, Bijelo Polje, Pljevlja, Herzog Novi, Bar, Andreivice. In the capital Podgorica alone, more than 50 thousand people came out to protest.
Balkan media reported this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I call on the Montenegrin authorities to revoke this law (“On Freedom of Religion”, according to which the state can take away monasteries and churches from the SOC - ed.), Metropolitan of Montenegro and Primorsky Amfilohiy Radovic addressed the believers, holding a litiya in Tivat. – If this power comes from the people, it will do so. If she doesn’t do this, then I will say that she is doing this because she is anti-people.”
Lithium in Podgorica.
It is characteristic that this time the believers were united by the common slogan “We do not betray the sacred!” The residents of Serbia and the Republic of Srpska BiH actively supported their fellow tribesmen and co-religionists.
Thus, a crowded procession of the cross took place from the Belgrade Church of St. Mark to Montenegro, covering 70 kilometers. In turn, from the town of Gacko, from the Church of the Holy Trinity towards Montenegro, the distance to the border with which is only a kilometer, a religious procession set off, but its participants were not allowed into the country by border guards with the wording that it “endangers the national security of Montenegro and threatens road safety."
The day before, on February 15, in Podgorica, Niksic and Dolani, local Serbian organizations, with the support of the Serbian Embassy, held events dedicated to the Statehood Day of Serbia. In particular, flowers were laid at the monument to the leader of the first Serbian uprising, Karageorgi, as well as to the Serbian heroes and martyrs of the First World War, Ljub Jevtic and Djok Mirasevic.
Procession of the Cross in Pljevlja.
Procession of the Cross in Tivat.
Laying flowers on Karadjordje in Podgorica.
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