Near the Embassy of Montenegro - a protest against the persecution of the Church
Several hundred Serbian students protested against the persecution of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) in front of the Montenegrin embassy in Belgrade, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Young people came with icons to express their outrage at the beating of believers and the priesthood in Podgorica. Some of them threw firecrackers and firecrackers at the Montenegrin flag on the building.
The students demanded the expulsion of Montenegrin diplomats from Serbian embassies around the world (in some countries there are no separate embassies of Montenegro, and its diplomats are located on the territory of Serbian diplomatic missions).
The protesters believe that official Belgrade should initiate the convening of the UN Security Council to consider the situation of the Serbs and the SOC in Montenegro.
They also initiate the declaration of the head of the diplomatic mission of Montenegro as persona non grata.
Next, the action participants went to the Church of St. Savva, due to which transport on some central city streets was stopped. The students again lit fires and shouted slogans against the authorities of Montenegro.
On Friday night, the Montenegrin parliament passed a law by a majority vote allowing the authorities to confiscate monasteries and churches of the Serbian Church in favor of a controlled autocephalous schismatic pseudo-church structure.
This decision sparked mass protests across the country. There were no votes against or abstentions in parliament, since the document was considered after the police detained all opposition deputies.
Mass protests are taking place in the cities of Berane, Bijelo Polje, Pljevlja, Podgorica, Bar, Budva, Kotor, Niksic. Over 55 people were detained, including opposition deputies. The Metropolis of the Montenegrin-Primorsky SOC reported that on the Djurdjevica Tara Bridge in the north of the country, police at night during a protest “cruelly beat Bishop Methodius and the believers who defended him with batons and kicked them.”
Earlier, President of Montenegro Milo Djukanovic said that he would seek autocephaly for the “Montenegrin church” following the example of Ukraine. There are 650 shrines under threat of being handed over to schismatics, including the Ostrog monastery, widely known in the Orthodox world.
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