2024-04-20 07:45:07
For the third time within a month, unknown persons break up the church in the Sliven district “Rechitsa”. Father Ivan Yankov serves in the “Holy Trinity” church, who a month ago, as a sign of disagreement with the counting of the diocesan elections for a new metropolitan of Sliven, announced a hunger strike and scandalized the high clergy of the church before the Easter fasts, calling the church “empty of content”.
And this time, the unknown perpetrators broke in through the window of the altar, but this time they ransacked the coffers in the church.
Father Ivan said that if the first time he was sure that the invasion of the altar was for intimidation, now he cannot determine what the attackers’ motives were. They tried to break the secret boxes that didn’t contain much money. The police are already investigating the case, reports BNT.
“This is the third since March 18. Now we are… yesterday was April 18. One month of my protest, hunger strike and protest against the injustices that occurred in the Sliven Diocese during the election of the Sliven Metropolitan. Is the date symbolic, is it another intimidation, whether it’s a simple robbery, I have no way of knowing. But I know that God will punish these people,” commented Father Ivan.
