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BISHOP OF NIS ANNOUNCED THE RESTORATION OF CHURCHES IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF MEDVEDJA

30. November 2017.

Medvedja - His Grace the Bishop of Nis  Arsenije visited the municipality of Medvedja, and talked with Nebojsa Arsic, the Mayor, about the common task, which would be that the Church, the state and society should strive to keep the population in that region.

Bishop Arsenije was welcomed in the church of the Holy Ascension in Medvedja, where he talked with the parishes, priests, believers and children, and promised that he would do everything so that the believers in that region would keep the faith, adding that their main task was the renovation of the existing churches.

Upon visiting Medvedja, Bishop Arsenije visited the Church of the Holy Prophet Ilija in Sijarinska Spa, the Russian Monastery at Mrkonje and the place at Gazdare where the new church would be built, for which the municipality of Medvedja had earmarked 2 million dinars.

Source: Jugmedia and Coordination Body