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Bishop Teodosije: Poor conditions for the return of Serbs to Prizren

by OCP May 13, 2012 Featured News

Radio Serbia 12/5/2012 Prizren and other towns in southern and central Kosovo and Metohija are not safe for the return of Serbs yet, said the head of the Eparchy of Raska and Prizren within the Serbian Orthodox Church, Bishop Teodosije, on a visit to the partly renovated Church of St Saviour in Prizren. Prizren and [...]

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Conference of the Edict of Milan opens

by OCP May 9, 2012 Featured News

Serbian Church 7/5/2012 In the congress hall of the Hotel Center in Novi Sad, on Wednesday, May 3, 2012 an international conference began: The Edict of Milan (313-2013): Basis for freedom of religion and belief. Opening this conference, His Grace Bishop Dr Irinej of Backa welcomed all high representatives of European confessions and all participants.У [...]

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Works in monasteries in Kosmet begin on April 23

by OCP April 19, 2012 Featured News

Radio Serbia 19/4/2012 Works on the conservation and restoration of frescoes in Orthodox Serb monasteries in Kosmet begin on April 23 and Belgrade company Koto, chosen by UNESCO at a tender, will be in charge. Works on the conservation and restoration of frescoes in Orthodox Serb monasteries in Kosmet begin on April 23 and Belgrade [...]

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Pope not planning to visit Serbia, Vatican says

by OCP April 19, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 19/4/2012 VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is not planning to visit Serbia next year for the 1,700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, Holy See Spokesman Federico Lombardi has said. The Belgrade-based Religious Information Agency (VIA) reported that Lombardi said that the contacts with the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate included Pope’s possible visit to [...]

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NIS to help preserve Orthodox temples

by OCP April 12, 2012 Featured News
Patriarch Irinej and Kirill Kravchenko (Tanjug)

12/4/2012 BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej and Oil Industry of Serbia (NIS) Director Kirill Kravchenko have signed a protocol on a long-term cooperation. The protocol envisages that NIS’ participation in SPC humanitarian projects. According to the protocol that was signed in the SPC Patriarchate in Belgrade, NIS will hand over a part [...]

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Roman Catholics will Penetrate into Orthodox Christian Hubs in Serbia

by OCP March 24, 2012 Featured News
(Fr. Mirko Stefkovic, Secretary of the Bishop of Subotica, Serbia)

24/3/2012 Vatican view Serbian entry into European Union as an opportunity to spread Roman Catholic dominance into the country. They will use it to penetrate into Orthodox Christian hubs in Serbia and manipulate the situation in complete favor of Vatican imperial agenda. “In Serbia, the Catholic Church has been through a considerable amount of …

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Committee for transfer of royal family’s remains

by OCP 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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Sava Tekelija – A great Serbian benefactor

by OCP February 22, 2012 News

20/2/2012 At the Gallery of the National Museum in Vranje from February 12 until 22, 2012 within the celebration of the Statehood Day of Serbia an exhibition ” Sava Tekelija – A great Serbian benefactor” isbeing held. On behalf of the Government of the Republic of Serbia the exhibition was opened by Professor Dr Zarko [...]

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The meaning of “no”

by OCP February 16, 2012 Featured News

By T.J. | ZVECAN 15/2/2012 Kosovo’s Serbs IN THE small town of Zvecan in northern Kosovo a poster shows Novak Djokovic, Serbia’s champion tennis player, punching the air with joy. Next to him a banner declares: “Referendum—99%”. Mr Djokovic’s family hails from here and so every lamppost on Zvecan’s main street is festooned with pictures [...]

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Re-creating a time of peace in the Balkans

by OCP February 9, 2012 Featured News

Ariston Anderson 5/2/2012 Sarajevo-born filmmaker Emir Kusturica is using the arts and architecture to re-imagine the Yugoslavia of his youth. MOKRA GORA, SERBIA — High in the mountains of Serbia sits a fairy-tale village full of wooden huts built in a style that hasn’t changed in 300 years. You’ll find French legend Isabelle Huppert and [...]

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Russian envoy receives top Church honor

by OCP 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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First Volume of the Serbian Encyclopaedia

by OCP February 3, 2012 News

1/2/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch attended yesterday in the ceremonial hall of the Serbian Academy for Sciences and Arts the presentation of the Serbian Encyclopaedia (Volume I, book 1-2) in the joint publication of the Matica Srpska, SASA and the Institute for School Books and Teaching Aid. The Serbian Encyclopedia describes the historical and [...]

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IOCC Sends New Wave of Relief to Serbia’s Earthquake Survivors

by OCP January 17, 2012 News

12/1/2012 One year after an earthquake in the Serbian village of Vitanovac crumbled the walls of her home and destroyed her only source of heat, this woman eagerly assembles the new wood stove now sitting in her kitchen. Through a generous gift from the Serbian Orthodox Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand, IOCC provided wood [...]

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Dacic: The police must not destroy the reputation it earned among citizens

by OCP December 28, 2011 News

Tanjug 28/12/2011 Dacic told reporters that the police must not destroy the reputation it earned among citizens who gave their trust to the forces and thus listed it among top three institutions in Serbia, together with the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Armed Forces. Everyone should do their job and those who will not [...]

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Remembrance of heroes of Kosovo

by OCP December 16, 2011 News

On 15th December celebrations took place of the 97th anniversary of the Battle of Kolubara, which was not only the greatest allied victory won during 1914, but also a textbook example of strategic action of the less skilled and less-equipped armed force which from its defensive position succeeded in diverting the course of …

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Day of Archives in Serbia

by OCP December 16, 2011 News

16/12/2011 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch attended yesterday the marking of the Day of archives in Serbia. At the celebration at the Archives of Serbia (Karnegijeva 2) a traditional annual award for the best book published in 2011 from archival science or historiography were handed over, based on the archival material which are kept in [...]

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Religiosity of the citizens of Serbia

by OCP December 16, 2011 News

15/12/2011 The Christian Cultural Centre, with the support of the Centre for European Studies (CES) and Conrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS), conducted during the period from July 2010 until February 2011 an empirical research on the social relevance of religion in Serbia entitled Research on religiosity of the citizens of Serbia and their position towards the [...]

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Patriarch of Serbia Kyr Irinej visited the Western American Diocese

by OCP December 10, 2011 News

9/12/2011 With great joy the faithful of the Western American Diocese, God-loving clergy, venerable monastics and our neighbors welcomed His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Kyr Irinej in Phoenix, Arizona. His Holiness during his visit on the Feast Day of the Entry of the Theotokos Into the Temple on Sunday, December 4th, 2011, served the Divine Hierarchical [...]

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Portable Churches Go On Sale In Serbia

by OCP November 30, 2011 Featured News
One of the Mancic family's portable churches (photo courtesy of www.danas.rs)

30/11/2011 A family in Serbia is commercializing a portable mini-church that it can deliver to anyone who wants a place of worship in their backyard. The five-ton, stone-and-steel construction is equipped with a cross, a bell tower, an altar, and frescoes. It can accommodate up to 15 worshipers. The enterprise was initiated by Svetislav Mancic [...]

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Instruments brought smiles to children from Kosovo and Metohija

by OCP November 25, 2011 News

24/11/2011 Within the humanitarian action ” An instrument for a smile” launched by the humanitarian NGO Mother of Nine Jugovic and the Musical school Josip Slavenski from Belgrade, and in the cooperation with the Diocese of Raska-Prizren, pupils and teachers of the Musical school “Stevan Hristic” from Gnjilane received 32 instruments (4 pianos, 16 violins, [...]

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The greatest publishers in Serbia visit Serbian Patriarch

by OCP November 21, 2011 News

18/11/2011 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received today in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade Mr. Slobodan Gavrilovic – director of the Sluzbeni glasnik, Mr. Miloljub Albijanic – director of the Institute for textbooks of Serbia, protopresbyter-staurophor Professor Dr Radovan Bigovic, Mr. Petar Arbutina – director of the publishing of the Sluzbeni glasnik and Mr. Goran [...]

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Bishop Teodosije: Division of Kosmet a Bad Solution

by OCP November 14, 2011 News

Radio Serbia 14/11/2011 The Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Raska and Prizren, Teodosije, said a division of Kosmet would be a bad solution, as most Serbs and their religious sanctities are not in the north of the province. He said that, nevertheless, reality cannot ignored. The Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Raska and Prizren, Teodosije, said a [...]

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“Churches in Kosovo are, and will remain Serbian”

by OCP November 9, 2011 Featured News
Vuk Jeremić (FoNet, file)

TANJUG 8/11/2011 BELGRADE — Vuk Jeremić stated on Tuesday that on Serbia’s election to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee will strengthen its positions regarding the nation’s heritage. The Serbian foreign minister stressed that it will help in efforts to prevent the attempts of renaming Serbian Orthodox Christian monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija, and refer to [...]

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125 years of the St. Sava Society

by OCP November 7, 2011 Featured News

6/11/2011 With a blessing of His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch on yesterday’s celebration in the National Theatre in Belgrade on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Society of St. Sava , His Grace Vicar Bishop Andrej of Remesiana presented the order of St. Sava to this society of patriots and entepreneurs for successful [...]

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Round table “The tenth anniversary of re-introduction of the religious education in schools in Serbia” held

by OCP November 4, 2011 Featured News

3/11/2011 In the organization of the Pedagogical and cathehist institute of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade yesterday a round table was held on the theme The tenth anniversary of re-introduction of the religious education in schools in Serbia. In the work of the round table following participants took part: Bishop [...]

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