Metropolitanate decides: Protest processions to continue in Montenegro

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The Council of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral has announced that if there are any changes regarding the organization of protest processions, the public would be immediately informed.

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"If there are any changes regarding the processions, we will inform the public immediately. There is nothing new up to this point," the Metropolitanate has told the daily Vijesti.

Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic announced today that public gatherings would be banned if coronavirus appears in Montenegro.

He pointed out to the serious situation in the region, the fact that the whole of Italy is under lockdown and that new cases have been registered in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia, and Albania.

The Metropolitanate has been organizing protest processions on Thursdays and Sundays ever since Christmas, over the adoption of Montenegro's Freedom of Religion Law.

The Metropolitanate and a part of the opposition parties are demanding the annulment of the law because they find particularly contentious its provisions transferring Church property to state ownership, if the Church has no evidence of ownership.

Markovic reiterated that the government is in dialogue with the Serbian Orthodox Church regarding the law on issues that the Church points out are problematic, not over whether the law will be enforced.

A meeting between government and Metropolitanate expert teams is underway in Villa Gorica in Podgorica.

(Telegraf.rs)