Montenegrin-Littoral Metropolitan to help UOC seek international protection
Metropolitan Joanikije. Photo: Cherkasy Herald
Metropolitan Joanikije of Montenegro and the Littoral announced that he has become a member of the human rights association "Church against Xenophobia and Discrimination" the website of the Cherkasy Eparchy of the UOC reports.
"We will support the believers of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and contribute in every way to ensuring that believers from Ukraine are provided with international protection and support at the international level," the bishop wrote.
The hierarch added that the participants in the human rights association intend to "promote the international agenda for further strengthening the rights of believers in Montenegro and protecting Orthodoxy in countries where it is really necessary."
As reported by the UOJ, in December 2023, bishops and clergy of the Local Orthodox Churches, together with non-governmental organizations with consultative status at the UN (Public Advocacy, VSI Zmogaus teisiu apsauga, and the European Institute for Religion and Law), signed an agreement to create the International Human Rights Association "Church against Xenophobia and Religious Discrimination".
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