Tbilisi. Azerbaijani TV channel ATV stopped broadcasting a video clip, which had been shot in a chapel of the Georgian St. George Kurmukhi Church on the present territory of Azerbaijan after the Georgian Patriarchy expressed a protest.
According to the video clip, a man and a woman beat monks with sticks on their heads and they faint. The man and the woman put on their cloths and enter the church. They find a certain treasure in a secret place, after it the woman runs away, but the man remain and fight against clergy, who have entered the church.
"Taking into consideration the Georgian Patriarch's concern, a decision was made to stop broadcasting the video clip. ATV channel states once again that demonstration of this video clip did not set the aim of hurting anybody's religious feelings, it was to show historical places and nature of Azerbaijan", reads a statement on the TV channel's site.
It is noted in the statement that films were shot in churches earlier too.
"It does not matter whether these scenes were shot in a mosque or a church. This mistake can't be compared with insulting of our religious feelings in Georgia. We expect from our colleagues and the Georgian Patriarchy "the same sensitiveness" regarding this", notes the statement.
In September 2014 local residents of Kobuleti town (Adjara) protested against the Georgian Muslims Community's plan to build a madrasah in the resort town. They slaughtered a pig and hang its head on a door of a building.
As the Georgian Patriarchy noted in its statement, the abovementioned clip had been shot in the church's altar that was ignoring of religious feelings of dozens of believers. People, who shot the clip turned the place of worship both of the Orthodox and Muslims into the game area.