{"id":2519,"date":"2020-01-15T23:50:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2020-01-15T23:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T06:52:35","slug":"%d0%b0n-attack-on-orthodoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"An attack on Orthodoxy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bishop Joanikije of\nBudimlje-Niksic on the new Law in Montenegro \u201c\u2026Terrible injustice is being\nimposed against the Serbian Orthodox Church; we are experiencing an attack on\nOrthodoxy in Montenegro, designed, projected, but, as Christians, we have a\nduty to resist and to stand up against the injustice, that our people and their\npriests have done. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

We remind this state, and the entire\ndomestic and international public, of the basic truth that the state stands on\nthe citizens in the same way as the Church stands on the believers. If, these\ndays so many citizens of the Orthodox Church of Montenegro have expressed their\ndisagreement with the injustice that is being done by passing the Law, and if\nthere have been so many of our justified reactions, identified by going out to\nthe streets, when everything has already been brought to absurdity, then\neveryone that is coming out and everyone who came out to the street testifies\nthat the law is null and void and not enacted in accordance with the will of\nthe majority Church in Montenegro<\/em>,” said the Bishop of\nBudimlje-Niksic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This law must be withdrawn. This\nwould be a practice in any normal, civilized, and especially, pro-European\ncountry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Montenegro is returning to\nprimitivism with this Law, because it is not in accordance with law, justice or\ninternational standards. It is only in accordance with the evil will and greed\nof those who wish to abduct church property and humiliate the Church, the Holy,\nDivine, Orthodox Church, and our holy faith<\/em>,” said Bishop Joanikije\nand added:
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\n“We must not allow that the\ntestaments of the Holy Prince Miroslav, of the duke Prvoslav and the king\nStephan Nemanjic, the founder of the Moraca monastery, and of St. Basil the\nOstrog and of other confessors of faith of our kinship be violated; they\nerected these shrines and dedicated them to God and the Church, and hence must\nnot be offended. Although the authorities say they will not desecrate the\nshrines, they will later say, as soon as they are registered, that they are the\nowners and can do whatever they want with them. They have already said that\nthey would share them with whom they want and how they want or turn them into a\nbusiness\u2026 “<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Church, together with faithful people, opposes these evil intentions,\nbut not with fire and sword, but with truth and justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop\nJoanikije of Budimlje-Niksic on the new Law in Montenegro<\/em>, <\/em>3. January 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bishop Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic on the new Law in Montenegro \u201c\u2026Terrible 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2523,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svetisimeon.org\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}