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Why Pope Francis isn’t welcome in Serbia

May 16, 2013 Featured News

Sasa Milosevic - 15/5/13 The Roman Catholic Church’s alleged role in the Ustase slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Serbs during World War II has not been forgiven. BELGRADE, Serbia — Though he washed the feet of a Serbian Muslim girl in an Italian prison on this year’s Holy Thursday Mass, Pope Francis is still not [...]

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Serbia must not loosen ties with Russia in seeking to join EU – Patriarch

May 10, 2013 Featured News

Belgrade, May 7, Interfax – The primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church has insisted that Serbia must not loosen its ties with “great Russia” in pursuing its bid to join the European Union. “I hope that our political leaders know how to find a bridge into Europe that would guarantee peaceful and stable development for [...]

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No conflict between Church and State

May 9, 2013 Featured News

9/5/13 BELGRADE – Bishop Irinej of Backa, spokesperson for the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), stated on Wednesday that there is no conflict between the state and the Church, stressing that they are only holding different viewpoints. At a debate dubbed “State-Church – secular and religious tolerance” held at Tanjug’s Press Center, the Bishop noted that [...]

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Holy Friday In Serbia, Eggs Colouring In Progress

May 3, 2013 News

Nebojsa Kocic | E-Mail: n.kocic@inserbia.info  3/5/13 Orthodox Christians are observing Holy Friday, the most sorrowful date of the Christian calendar commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. On this day, Orthodox believers observe a particularly rigorous period of fasting in commemoration of Jesus’ sufferings and his death on the cross. They abstain from every kind of food subsisting [...]

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Nikolic Met With Patriarch Theophilus III

May 3, 2013 Featured News

Maja Radojcic | E-Mail: maja@inserbia.info  3/5/13 Theophilus III welcomed the Serbian president, as he put it, both as a political leader and as a pilgrim, adding that he knows that Kosovo is “Serbia’s Jerusalem” and that he is aware of the suffering the Serbian people are going through. “I want to thank you for everything you are [...]

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Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) criticized Brussels agreement

April 23, 2013 Featured News

23/4/13 BELGRADE – The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) believes that the initial agreement proposal between Belgrade and Pristina in Brussels constitutes ‘an indirect and silent but still practical’ recognition of the government system in Kosovo-Metohija which is independent of Serbia’s government structures, and warns that the price of Serbia’s potential EU [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej at the opening of the Historical Museum of Serbia

April 17, 2013 News

15/4/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch attended on 12 April 2013  the solemn opening of the restored Museum of History of Serbia, in which the exhibition “The Karadjordjevics and the Obrenovics in the collections of Historical Museum of Serbia”  was set up. The restored space of the Historical Museum of Serbia was opened by President [...]

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Serbia buries 13 victims of shooting spree

April 13, 2013 Featured News

FOCUS News Agency – 13/4/13 Velika Ivanca. Church bells rang out in the tiny Serbian village of Velika Ivanca on Friday, as hundreds of tearful mourners buried 13 people gunned down in Serbia’s worst massacre in two decades, AFP reported. Mourners carrying flowers and candles and mostly dressed in black queued to pay their respects to the six [...]

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Bishop Irinej of Backa: Church does not intend to engage in politics

April 12, 2013 Featured News

Serbian Orthodox Church- 10/4/13 The spokesman of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Bishop Irinej of Backa, stated on 8 April, following the end of the meeting of His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch and the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church with the state leadership of Serbia, that the Church does [...]

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Meeting of Serbian leadership with Serbian Patriarch

April 12, 2013 Featured News

At the Serbian Patriarchate, on 8 April 2013, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, met with Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, President of Serbia; Mr. Ivica Dacic, Prime Minister of the Government of Serbia and Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, First Vice President of the Government of Serbia. The members of the Holy Synod of Bishops attended the meeting, Their [...]

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Public Appeal to State Authorities of Serbia

April 12, 2013 Featured News

Mr. Tomislav Nikolic, President of Serbia Mr. Ivica Dacic, President of the Government of Serbia Mr. Aleksandar Vucic, First Vice President of the Government of Serbia Belgrade – 9/4/13   Esteemed  Mr. President, Еsteemed Mr. Prime Minister, Еsteemed Mr. First Vice President of the Government, In this, for both Serbia and the Serbian people very [...]

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Remembrance day on the bombing of the National Library of Serbia

April 12, 2013 News

10/4/13 Many Belgraders with books in their hands gathered on April 6th, 2013 at Kosancicev Venac, when the National Library of Serbia was completely destroyed and burnt in Nazi bombing 72 years ago. Besides Minister of Culture and Information Mr. Bratislav Petkovic, at the site there were His Grace Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno, the head [...]

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A rally “For Serbian Kosovo” in Bialystok

March 26, 2013 Featured News

February 2013 – Poland On 26 February in Bialystok was a day of solidarity with Orthodox Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija. Kosovo is now occupied by Albanians who, five years ago, pronounced the independence of Kosovo trying to tear it away from Serbia and create new Albania. The day started with a liturgy and prayers [...]

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Serbia marks 14th anniversary of NATO bombing

March 24, 2013 Featured News
A heating plant in New Belgrade is seen after being hit by NATO missiles (Tanjug, file)

24/3/13 BELGRADE — Today marks the 14th anniversary since the start of the NATO bombing campaign against Serbia, i.e. the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ). The bombing lasted 79 days and resulted in at least 2,500 deaths and more than 12,500 injuries. The attacks on Serbia started on March 24, 1999, and the last [...]

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Visit of German Ambassador to Diocese of Nis

March 19, 2013 News

18/3/13 His Grace Bishop Jovan of Nis met with His Excellency Heinz Wilhelm, the ambassador of Germany in Serbia on 15 March 2013 at the church of Saint Panteleimon in Nis. During the one-hour cordial talk they exchanged important views on history of the Church, the significance of the diocese of Nis in history and [...]

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National Library marked its day

March 2, 2013 Featured News

1/3/13 Serbian Orthodox Church The National Library of Serbia marked the 181th anniversary of its existence with various manifestations. During the central ceremony a traditional award of the Library was presented for the best among the most read books. This year’s laureate is Slobodan Tisma for his novel Bernardi’s room (Bernardijeva soba). Yesterday’s celebration of [...]

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Kosovo and Metohia, endowments and gifts

February 22, 2013 News

22/2/13 The exhibition ‘Kosovo and Metohia – Endowments and Gifts’ is opened at the Gallery of Frescoes. It represents а collection of the National Museum in Belgrade The aim of this well-organized exhibition was to present the public in more direct way the Serbian national heritage in Kosovo and Metohia,  a source of spiritual, cultural, [...]

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Bells toll for last Serbs in Kosovo capital

February 19, 2013 Featured News
A sprinkling of Kosovo Serbs attend a religious service at the Saint Nicolas Orthodox church in Pristina on February 10, 2013. After the 1999 NATO bombing campaign that forced out Belgrade security forces, some 200,000 Serbs fled the territory fearing reprisal attacks by extremists.

  19/2/13 AFP – The bells of Pristina’s sole Orthodox Church toll for a liturgy that will bring brief spiritual peace to a small group of Serbs, remaining members of a dwindling community in Kosovo, five years after it broke away from Serbia. At the Saint Nicolas church, three elderly Serbs listen to the mass [...]

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Tom Hanks Defend Serbs: Kosovo is Serbia

February 18, 2013 Featured News

17/2/13 Translated by Kisha D Dorado OCP News Service Tom Hans himself is a convert to Orthodoxy. More here: LOS ANGELES-The famous Hollywood star, a double Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks unexpectedly sided with the Serbs and in the show cable station “E” he said that that Kosovo has always been Serbia and will be again [...]

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Attacks on Dečani Monastery: Apartheid, Attempt to erase Serb History in Kosovo

February 17, 2013 Featured News

Global Research, February 16, 2013 Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Government of the Republic of Serbia Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Aleksandar Vulin said that threats and protests outside the Dečani Monastery represent an attempt to wrap up the ethnic cleaning and that there are attempts to remove evidence of existence of [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej meets with Serbian President

February 16, 2013 Featured News

13/2/13 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, met on 11 February 2013 with Mr.Tomislav Nikolic, President of the Republic of Serbia, at the Office of the President of Serbia in Belgrade. President Nikolic and Serbian Patriarch Irinej expressed their concern regarding the security of the citizens and the Serbian Church in Kosovo and Metohia, especially after [...]

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Delegation of Radio Television of Serbia visits Serbian Patriarch

January 31, 2013 News

Serbian Patriarchate, 28 January 2013 - His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, in the presence of Their Graces Bishops Atanasije of Hvosno and Porfirije of Jegar, met at the Serbian Patriarchate with Mr. Aleksandar Tijanic, General Director of the Radio Television of Serbia with closest associates: Mr. Nikola Mirkov, Director of the Television of Belgrade and Mr. [...]

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Remains of Yugoslavia’s former king returned to Serbia from Libertyville

January 25, 2013 Featured News

Michael Holtz, Chicago Tribune reporter - 25/1/13 Laid to rest in north suburban Libertyville more than 40 years ago, King Peter II of Yugoslavia long had the distinction of being the only European monarch buried on U.S. soil. Now he has the distinction of being the only European monarch disinterred from U.S. soil. In a ceremony [...]

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Opening of the Edict of Milan in Niš

January 20, 2013 Featured News

20/1/13 – Serbian Orthodox Church The celebration of the 1700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan in Serbia officially began  on 17 January 2013, with the concert of the Sretenje monastery choir at the National Theater in Niš. Mr. Tomislav Nikolić, the President of the Republic of Serbia and His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch addressed [...]

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Conference “Social Protection in Rural Areas – Possibilities and Challenges“

December 22, 2012 News

22/12/12 Philanthropy, The Charitable Foundation of the Serbian Orthodox Church organized a conference “Social Protection in Rural Areas – Possibilities and Challenges” on 13 December 2012, the day of Saint Andrew the First called Apostle. The Conference was organized in the St. Sava Hall in Nis, with the blessing of His Grace Bishop Jovan of [...]

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