Service of supplication and procession in Bijelo Polje

Following a prayer of supplication (moleban) served on Sunday, December 29, 2019, by the clergy of the church community of Bijelo Polje at the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, there was a procession through the town of Bijelo Polje to St. Nicholas church in Nikoljac, thus protesting against the Law on Freedom of Religion.

Metropolitan Amfilohije: Churches belong to the people, not to the ungodly ones!

His Eminence Amfilohije, Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral,  and Their Graces Bishops Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic, Atanasije of Mileseva, Dimitrije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina and retired Atanasije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina celebrated the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy  with the prayerful participation of many faithful believers at Holy Apostolic Church in Podgorica  on Sunday, December 29, 2019.

At the end of the Liturgy Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral blessed this Assembly on behalf of the Lord, the Assembly, as he said, begins here on earth, and it continues in eternity, the eternal Kingdom of God.

Bishop Irinej of Backa leads a protest walk in support of the defense of the rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro

His Grace Bishop Irinej of Backa together with His Grace Bishop Isihije of Mohacs and the clergy as well as monastics of the Diocese of Backa attended at the Republic Square in Novi Sad, on December 30, 2019, a protest organized against the adoption of the discriminatory "Law on Freedom of Religion (!) and the Legal Status of Religious Communities" in Montenegro, thus providing full support for the defense of the rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro.

Through a peaceful walk from Republic Square to City Hall, the citizens of Novi Sad led by their Bishop, expressed a determined opposition to the forceful seizure of churches and monasteries and prayed to the Lord to grant reason to representatives of the authorities in Montenegro to end the violence and usurpation of the assets of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro.

Serbian Patriarch Irinej appeals for ending the terror over the Church and the people in Montenegro

Appeal of Serbian Patriarch Irinej for ending the terror
over the Church and the people in Montenegro

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej calls on the Montenegrin state authorities, especially members of the Ministry of the Interior, to immediately end the brutal terror over the Serbian Orthodox Church, its clergy and its faithful people. Inhuman beatings of the Vicar Bishop Metodije of Dioclea, priests, and Serbian Orthodox believers, simply because they are Serbs and Orthodox believers, represent unprecedented acts in Europe since the fall of fascism and the end of Bolshevik terror.

New deacon in the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovac

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Saint Basil of Ostrog on the feast day of Materice - Mother's Day, 29 December 2019.

The Patriarch was concelebrate by local priests. On this occasion Serbian Patriarch ordained Dragan Simikic a deacon.

Montenegrin police beat Serbian bishop, faithful protesting adoption of anti-church law

Despite strong protests from the hierarchs, clergy, monastics, and faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the majority religion in the country, the Montenegrin Parliament adopted the anti-Church law “On Freedom of Religion and Belief and the Legal Status of Religious Communities” yesterday.