FYROM Police Detain 17 Monks, Nuns, Believers

FYROM’s security forces have detained 17 monks, nuns and other believers on tax evasion charges as part of a fresh crackdown on the Serbian Orthodox Church in FYROM, representatives and investigators told BosNewsLife Tuesday, May 22.

They were captured after police entered several monasteries and homes of church members, who fall under the responsibility of the Serbian Orthodox Church’s “Ohrid Archbishopric” in FYROM,  said Centar 9, or ‘Center 9’ in English, a major Balkan religious rights watchdog.

“Prosecution of monks, nuns and believers of the Serbian Orthodox Church in FYROM continues,” Center 9 General Secretary Drasko Djenovic told BosNewsLife. “[It is] the situation in that ex-Yugoslav state,” he said.

The raid reportedly began early Monday, May 21, when police in the eastern FYROM’s town of Stip “was looking to arrest Bishop Marko of Bregalnica” area but he was not present as he attended the spring session of the Serbian Orthodox Church Synod in Belgrade, Serbia, according to investigators. However a nun, identified as Pelagija, was said to have been detained in that raid.

Elsewhere, in FYROM’s capital Skopje, police entered a monastery of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God looking for Bishop David of the ancient town of Stobi, Center 9 added.

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Antiquities seized in Macedonia (Northern Greece)

The Greek Press reported more details regarding the recent story of the Antiquities seized by the Greek police in Macedonia (Northern Greece)

The antiquities included “four helmets, golden masks, golden rings, sword fragments and other objects”. The finds are reported as being similar to those found in the sixth century BCE cemetery at Sindos.

In the anti-smuggling operation two Greek Nationals were detained. The 70 antiquities which were seized recently in Macedonia (Northern Greece) were likely to travel in order to be “discovered” some day in FYROM, as the newspaper ToVima recently reported.

Greece and FYROM have been tangled in a ongoing dispute regarding the latter’s name, after FYROM’s Slavs absurdly keep claiming the Name, history and heritage of ancient Macedonia, an ancient Greek kingdom in Macedonia, Greece.