![Priests and Orthodox nuns watch the funeral service for Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic from the balcony on November 1, 2020 in Podgorica, Montenegro.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/121650.jpg?w=602)
Montenegro’s Churches Get a Religious Freedom Do-Over
Property dispute between Orthodox church and government that sparked mass protests in the Balkans ends—for now—with a strengthening of religious rights for evangelicals and other faiths.
![Metropolitan Amfilohije's funeral service on November 1 in Podgorica, Montenegro.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/120335.jpg?w=602)
Assessing Metropolitan Amfilohije, Whose Religious Freedom Fight Brought Down a Dynasty
An evangelical reflection on the legacy of Montenegro’s Orthodox leader, the highest-ranking clergy worldwide to die of COVID-19.
![Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro votes on August 30.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/119162.jpg?w=602)
Controversial Religion Law Tips Montenegro Election
Serbian Orthodox Church called for votes against 30-year ruling party. Evangelicals “cried for justice … now we have to pray hard for this country.”
![Protesters hold an Orthodox icon during a Belgrade rally held by the Serbian Orthodox Church in January to protest Montenegro's religion law.](https://www.christianitytoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/115147.jpg?w=602)
Religious Freedom Comes to Europe’s Second-Newest Nation. But Christians Are Concerned.
Montenegro’s Orthodox and evangelicals debate if new religion law is a blessing or a church-stealing curse.