Metropolitanate announces continuation of protest processions in Montenegro

According to announcements made by Gojko Perovic, the rector of the Theological Seminary of St. Peter of Cetinje in Cetinje, the protest processions will soon resume in Montenegro because, as he says, the government did not accept the proposal to continue negotiations about the controversial Law on Freedom of Religion.

He added that the Metropolitanate (of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church) pointed this out to the representatives of the oldest European democracies, with whom meeting were held these days.

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The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral had given the authorities a deadline until St. Peter's Day to continue the dialogue about the controversial Law on Freedom of Religion, but the dialogue was not continued.

"The Church is not stubborn, nor are we imposing conditions or retaliating in the same way, but in the spirit of elementary secularism we believe that any story about negotiations, from now until the end of the upcoming elections would be inappropriate," says Perovic.

He says that negotiations in the coming days "would be a humiliation and an abuse of this important topic."

Perovic then announced the continuation of processions.

"In the very foreseeable future, we will continue our civil protests and prayer gatherings, without violating health measures. We will do that outside the scope of any party's political abuse, as we have done so far," said Perovic.

(Telegraf.rs)