Thousands Of Montenegrins Protest Government Plan To Amend Controversial Religion Law
December 28, 2020 20:56 GMT
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PODGORICA, Montenegro Several thousand people in Montenegro have protested the new government’s plan to amend a controversial law on religion.
Protesters chanted “Treason” and “This Is Not Serbia” as they gathered on December 28 outside the parliament building in the capital Podgorica, where lawmakers planned to discuss the proposed changes.
Under Montenegro s new religion law, adopted in January, religious communities must prove property ownership from before 1918.
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That is the year when predominantly Orthodox Christian Montenegro joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes and the Montenegrin Orthodox Church was subsumed by the Serbian Orthodox Church, losing all of its property in the process.