The march is available in Belgrade regardless of the Serbian authorities’ choice to cancel subsequent month’s pan-European LGBTQ occasion.
Hundreds of Orthodox Christians have marched in Belgrade to warn towards holding EuroPride regardless of the Serbian authorities’ choice to cancel subsequent month’s pan-European gathering of the LGBTQ neighborhood.
Carrying icons, crosses and non secular flags, Sunday’s protesters marched by way of the town centre whereas praying and chanting earlier than gathering outdoors the cathedral of Saint Sava.
President Aleksandar Vucic on Saturday introduced that he had determined, in session with the federal government, that the pleasure parade could be “postponed or cancelled”.
Vucic mentioned it was not potential to “deal with the whole lot” at a time when Serbia was “pressured with all types of issues”, underlining current tensions with former province Kosovo and considerations over vitality and meals.
However EuroPride organisers promised to press on with the parade.
“Satisfaction will go forward as deliberate on September 17,” Belgrade Satisfaction coordinator Marko Mihailovic mentioned.
Addressing the gang on Sunday, Serbian Orthodox Bishop Nikanor hailed the authorities’ choice to reverse “the desecration of our nation, our Church and our household”.
For him, it was an “abnormality” which ought to be handled as in the Russia of President Vladimir Putin – whom he known as “the tsar of the planet”, based on video footage on the Glas Javnosti information website.
In 2013, Russia launched a legislation banning LGBTQ “propaganda” geared toward minors, punishable with fines and imprisonment.
Bishop Nikanor mentioned the devoted had been able to take to the streets once more to “put themselves earlier than those that intend to destroy the values of Serbia”.
The primary two Belgrade Satisfaction marches, in 2001 and 2010, had been marred by violence. The parade has been organised commonly since 2014 however with a big legislation enforcement presence.
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