Photo: Strahinja Aćimović/Tanjug"We also hear that the Church is guilty of violence against women. Don't do it, because we will answer you. It won't do you any good if we answer to you"
In a sermon after the Holy Liturgy in the church of Saint Basil of Ostrog on Bežanijska kosa, His Holiness the Patriarch of Serbia, Mr. Among other things, Porphyry said: "We also hear that the Church is also guilty of violence against women. Don't do it, because we will answer you. It won't do you any good if we respond to you, because everyone will see that you manipulated and lied. Until now, we have not responded to that, because we pray to God and for you who accuse," reports the website of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
He began that sermon with an invitation to the Spasovdanska procession with the words that with prayer, and not with conflicts and arguments, "let us turn to the Lord to be with us".
The patriarch's warning does not sound very prayerful and conciliatory and builds on previous statements regarding gender-sensitive language. In the Easter Epistle, he appealed, among other things, to repeal "the law that imposes the so-called gender-sensitive language behind which the fight against marriage and the family is hidden."
Threats and insults of the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church
Ana Ninković from "Women's Solidarity" tells the "Vremena" portal that in this atmosphere in which we are currently and in which we talk about violence all the time, there is no room for any more threats and insults.
"It's simply unbelievable to me that someone who stands behind an institution like the SPC can say something like that without thinking about the consequences," says Ninković.
He states that "we also see some opposition politicians defending the Patriarch's statement and criticizing us who criticize the literal insults that the Patriarch sent, and again in connection with gender-sensitive language. And he himself used that gender-sensitive language when he called women wretches, not wretches."
"Wretched" and "wretched"
In a conversation with priests and believers during a candlelight feast, the patriarch said that this law has nothing to do with women, but with "the essence of our existence, with the essence of our being."
And he continued: "I would cry, I would scream in agony, when I see a poor woman who changes her thesis, and says `why didn't they take care of women, women are endangered'." Well, they are threatened, we are all threatened by you, poor wretch." In his evangelical outrage, Porphyry used the words "wretched" and "poor" and not "wretched" and "wretched", all in the spirit of gender-sensitive language against which he declared war on the Orthodox Church.
A video of Porfirio's outburst of anger directed at a woman who criticized him ended up on social networks and caused indignation in a part of the public.
Conviction of the Commissioner for Equality
Responding to the patriarch's statement that was leaked to the public, the commissioner for the protection of equality, Brankica Janković, wrote on her Facebook profile: "The words that appeared in the public space, which call women wretched and poor, are deeply humiliating and disturbing. says the patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church," and that in moments "extremely difficult for our society, in which we faced two great tragedies and when the most vulnerable in society - children and women."
And she continued: "In days of sadness and pain, and when we count the 18th woman victim of domestic violence, and while women are exposed to various forms of discrimination, violence and aggression, the least that is expected of all of us is to be aware of the weight and responsibility for what has been said words".
The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church began on May 14 with the Holy Liturgy in the Church of Saint Sava, and the working part of the Assembly session began on May 15 in the crypt of the church.
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"'Poor and wretched person' certainly does not fit into the noble and spiritual narrative that is expected from the patriarch," notes the Democratic Party.
