Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic on the new Law in Montenegro
3. Јануар 2020 - 20:51
Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic on the new Law in Montenegro “…Terrible injustice is being imposed against the Serbian Orthodox Church; we are experiencing an attack on Orthodoxy in Montenegro, designed, projected, but, as Christians, we have a duty to resist and to stand up against the injustice, that our people and their priests have done.
We remind this state, and the entire domestic and international public, of the basic truth that the state stands on the citizens in the same way as the Church stands on the believers. If, these days so many citizens of the Orthodox Church of Montenegro have expressed their disagreement with the injustice that is being done by passing the Law, and if there have been so many of our justified reactions, identified by going out to the streets, when everything has already been brought to absurdity, then everyone that is coming out and everyone who came out to the street testifies that the law is null and void and not enacted in accordance with the will of the majority Church in Montenegro," said the Bishop of Budimlje-Niksic.
Episcopal visit to the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos Church in Orange County
31. Децембар 2019 - 17:33
On Sunday December 15th His Grace Bishop Maxim served Hierarchical Divine Liturgy at the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Irvine, Orange County.
Bishop Irinej of Backa leads a protest walk in support of the defense of the rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro
31. Децембар 2019 - 10:15
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.
Metropolitan Amfilohije: Churches belong to the people, not to the ungodly ones!
31. Децембар 2019 - 10:20
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.
Service of supplication and procession in Bijelo Polje
31. Децембар 2019 - 10:23
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.
