Mass brawl between Christians, Muslims in Georgia

Source: Interfax-Religion

March 1, 2016

    

Ethnic Georgian Muslims and Christians engaged in a mass brawl in which several people were hurt in the district center of Adigeni in southern Georgia, the Georgian media reported on Tuesday.

Representatives of the State Agency for Religious Affairs are to visit Adigeni on Tuesday for a meeting with local residents.

Several dozen families were resettled from Ajaria to Adigeni about 30 years ago after their homes were destroyed in a mudslide. The resettlers, followers of Islam, settled down, having no problems with the locals. The problem began recently, after the Georgian State Agency for Religious Issues permitted local Muslims to build a separate cemetery on a designated plot of land. Before that, Christians and Muslims were buried at the same cemetery.

The Agency's decision triggered the protest of local Orthodox believers who told the press that after building their cemetery local Muslims intended to demand the construction of a mosque and, eventually might evict Orthodox believers from Adigeni because three babies were born to a Muslim family compared to one born to a Christian family in the district center in recent years.

Interfax-Religion

3/1/2016

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