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Patriarch and president meet and urge “unity”

May 17, 2013 Featured News

TANJUG – 13/5/13 BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej and President Tomislav Nikolić met on Monday and urged “absolute unity and responsibility”. This is necessary “in the search for a solution to the Kosovo and Metohija issue as the most important national matter.” “We wish to resolve the Kosovo and Metohija issue in [...]

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Patriarch: Serbs must return to Kosovo

March 18, 2013 Featured News

18/3/13 BELGRADE –   The most important request of Serbia in all talks about Kosovo needs to be the return of Serbs, Serbian Patriarch Irinej has said. “One of the first steps and items in the talks, today and tomorrow, a condition and request we need to set is the return of a large number of [...]

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“Talks only way to Kosovo solution, Russia ready to assist”

October 12, 2012 Featured News

Tanjug 12/10/2012 BELGRADE — Talks between Belgrade and Priština are the only way to settle the Kosovo issue, and Russia is willing to assist in the process, a Russian official says. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia Aleksandr Torshin, who is on a several-day visit to Serbia, on Monday presented the Russia-based international [...]

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Ohrid Orthodox Archbishopric seeks help

August 16, 2012 Featured News

15/8/2012 BELGRADE — Representatives of the Ohrid Orthodox Archbishopric met with Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić on Tuesday in Belgrade. They briefed him about the problems this autonomous archbishopric of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Macedonia has had in seeking protection of their human rights and religious freedoms, Bishop Irinej of Bačka said. Representatives of the [...]

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President Nikolić seeks advice from Patriarch

June 7, 2012 Featured News

Tanjug 7/6/2012 BELGRADE — Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić met late on Monday in Belgrade with the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Patirarch Irinej. Nikolić said after the meeting that he hoped a new government would be formed soon, adding that the citizens “will not show understanding for those in charge of doing that [...]

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Serbia’s new president takes oath of office

May 31, 2012 Featured News

31/5/2012 BELGRADE — Tomislav Nikolić was on Thursday in Belgrade sworn in in front of the Serbian parliament, officially taking over as Serbia’s new president. Nikolić won in the second round of the presidential election on May 20, defeating Boris Tadić, who sought his third term in office. The special parliament session in Belgrade today [...]

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Patriarch sends Easter message

April 14, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 12/4/2012 BELGRADE — Serbian Patriarch Irinej called on Orthodox believers to safeguard and rightfully confess the Orthodox faith. He also called on them to pray for their brothers and sisters in Kosovo on the day of the resurrection of Christ. “We offer our unceasing prayers to our resurrected Christ for our brothers and sisters [...]

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Committee for transfer of royal family’s remains

March 23, 2012 Featured News
The Oplenac church (file)

23/3/2012 TANJUG BELGRADE — The Serbian government decided Thursday to form a committee for exhumation and transfer of remains of members of the Karađorđević royal family to Serbia. The committee will be headed by Serbian President Boris Tadić, Minister of Religion and Diaspora Srđan Srećković told a press conference after today’s session. Srećković said that [...]

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Serbian Orthodox Monasteries in Kosovo among 5 Mediterranean Holy Sites

March 11, 2012 Featured News

10/3/2012 Serbian Orthodox Monasteries in Kosovo among 5 Mediterranean Holy Sites (ANSAmed) – BELGRADE, MARCH 9 – The Serbian monasteries in Kosovo were listed among the five most important holy sites of the Mediterranean along with Jerusalem, Mt. Athos, Mecca and Vatican. The decision on importance of the Serbian monasteries in Kosovo was rendered at [...]

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Russian envoy receives top Church honor

February 7, 2012 Featured News

7/2/2012 BELGRADE — Russian Ambassador to Serbia Aleksandr Konuzin has received the highest honor given by the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC). SPC Patriarch Irinej presented the Order of St. Sava 1st Class to the diplomat in a ceremony in Belgrade on Monday. The Church said the honor was given as sign of gratitude for Konuzin’s [...]

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Church: EU has alternative, Serbs Should Persevere

December 2, 2011 Featured News

B92 2/12/2011 BELGRADE — The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) has issued a statement sending a message to both the Serbian authorities in Belgrade, and the Serbs in Kosovo. The SPC statement on Friday advised the authorities that Serbia’s membership in the EU “does have alternative”, and called on Serbs manning the barricades in northern Kosovo [...]

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Serbs “among Europe’s most Religious Nations

October 6, 2011 Featured News

VEČERNJE NOVOSTI 6.10.2011 BELGRADE — A Belgrade daily writes today that Serbs are among Europe’s most religious nations, and adds that 95 percent of the population declared themselves as religious. The Večernje Novosti newspaper asked the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarchy to comment on this “astonishing data”, where they were told that the Serb nation [...]

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Patriarch says “shame parade” should not be held

September 30, 2011 Featured News

30/9/2011 BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej has called on competent authorities not to allow the Pride Parade, which he called “shame parade”, to be held. “Our city and our public are this year being shaken by the issue of holding of so-called ‘shame parade’. I would with much justification call this plague [...]

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Victims of Operation Storm Remembered

August 4, 2011 Featured News

TANJUG 4/8/2011 BELGRADE — Today marks the 16th anniversary since the beginning of Croatian army and police Operation Storm that led to the exodus of more than 200,000 Serbs from Croatia. Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej held a memorial service at St. Mark’s Church in downtown Belgrade for the victims of the 1995 military [...]

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