Security escort Montenegro's Prime Minister Dusko Markovic out of the parliamentary hall after opposition tried to prevent the vote on a bill on religious freedoms and legal rights of religious organizations in Montenegro's parliament in Podgorica, Montenegro December 27, 2019. REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic
PODGORICA (Reuters) - Montenegro's parliament approved on Friday a law on religious communities despite street protests and a last-minute attempt in the chamber by deputies of the pro-Serb opposition to prevent the vote going ahead.
Under the law, religious communities in the tiny Adriatic state would need to prove property ownership from before 1918, when predominantly Orthodox Christian Montenegro joined the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, the predecessor of the now-defunct Yugoslavia.
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