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Solemn Procession in honour and glory of Our Holy Father Basil of Ostrog the Wonderworker went through streets of Niksic

by OCP May 15, 2012 Featured News

Serbian Orthodox Church 15/5/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriaarch, His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral and Their Graces Bishops retired Atanasije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina, Nikanor of Banat, Filaret of Milesevo, Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic, Grigorije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina and Maxim of Western America with great number of priests and believers led on Saturday, May 12 [...]

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His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch blesses newly-built Monastery of St. Sava in Golija

by OCP May 15, 2012 News

Serbian Orthodox Church 14/5/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch consecrated today newly built monastery of St. Sava in Golija with the concelebration of Their Graces Bishops retired Atanasije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina, Nikanor of Banat, Filaret of Mileseva, Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic, Grigorije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina and Maxim of Western America on Sunday, May 13, 2012 and he served [...]

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Announcement of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the occasion of the latest imprisonment of Archbishop John

by OCP May 15, 2012 Featured News
His Eminence Archbishop Jovan VI Archbishop Of Ohrid And Metropolitan Of Skopje (Serbian Orthodox Church)

Serbian Orthodox Church 14/5/2012 After years of persecution, harassment, arrests and imprisonments, His Beatitude the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje kyr Dr. John, pan-Orthodoxly renowned and recognized canonical Prelate of the ancient Ohrid Archbishopric, was sentenced yesterday, May 11th, to two and a half years in prison under false charges of alleged fraud [...]

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Session of the Plenary of the Patriarchate Steering Committee of the Serbian Orthodox Church

by OCP May 5, 2012 News

4/5/2012 Before the beginning of the regular year’s session of the Plenary of the Patriarchate Steering Committee of the Serbian Orthodox Church on May 3, 2012 His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija served the Invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Patriarchate Chapel of St. Symeon the Myrrh-Gushing, in the presence of His Holiness Irinej, [...]

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Giving Helping Hands to Places of Worship

by OCP May 3, 2012 Featured News
The altar of the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava

Snaps:Daniella Zalcman for The Wall Street Journal By KATHLEEN LUCADAMO Wall Street Journal 3/5/2012 The Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, a storied church nestled among offices and bustling shops on West 25th Street was in need of divine intervention in 1990. The roof of the 19th-century Gothic Revival landmark was near collapse. Restoration costs [...]

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Inter-cultural dialogue through monasteries in Kosovo

by OCP April 27, 2012 Featured News

By Reverend Donald Reeves MBE 27/4/2012 Soul of Europe Website: The Orthodox monasteries and the municipalities of Peć and Dečani have to start creating the basis for healthy community relations in order to ensure that the former become centres of inter-cultural dialogue, rather than a focus for conflict. In early April, the president of the [...]

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Montenegro “wants to humiliate SPC”

by OCP March 26, 2012 Featured News
Metropolitan Amfilohije Radović

26/3/2012 PODGORICA — Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije Radović has stated that Montenegro wants to humiliate the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC). He explained that requests to register the SPC in Montenegro and “persecution of its priests” were an attempt to humiliate the SPC. Amfilohije said that people from the Social Democratic Party were [...]

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Inter-religious leaders in Slovenia join forces to defend the family

by OCP March 24, 2012 News

23/03/2012 Polls open Sunday, March 25, in Slovenia for a referendum on the Family Code, which seeks to legalize same-sex unions, allowing them to adopt children. In view of the upcoming vote, representatives from the Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim communities in the country have signed a joint declaration which reaffirmed the importance of family based [...]

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Eighth anniversary of anti-Serb violence in Kosovo

by OCP March 19, 2012 Featured News
Metropolitan Hilarion of Russia at the remains of a destroyed Serbian Church in Kosovo

B92, BETA, TANJUG 19/3/2012 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA — Today marks the eighth anniversary of anti-Serb violence in Kosovo when 19 people were killed and 34 Serbian Orthodox churches were destroyed. More than 5,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians were expelled from their homes in the violence that broke out on March 17, 2004. 11 Albanians and eight [...]

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Dr. Daniel Hinshaw Appointed Visiting Professor of Palliative Care

by OCP March 14, 2012 News
Dr. Daniel Hinshaw, lecturing on “Spiritual Issues in Suffering and Palliative Care,” a pastoral seminar held on our campus in October 2011.

14/3/2012 St. Vladimir’s Seminary Dr. Daniel B. Hinshaw has been appointed Visiting Professor of Palliative Care at St. Vladimir’s Seminary. Dr. Hinshaw is Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School, in the Section of General Surgery. He serves as an attending consultant physician on the inpatient palliative care consultation service at the [...]

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Orthodox church in Kosovo desecrated

by OCP March 5, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 4/3/2012 GNJILANE — Serbian Orthodox Church of St. George in the village of Stanišor was burgled Friday night and money was stolen from the register, Kosovo police have confirmed. Kosovo police regional spokesman Ismet Hasani told Tanjug that the police had inspected the scene and determined that a burglary took place and that the [...]

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Order of Saint Despot Stephen to Milovan Vitezovic and Miodrag Vujovic

by OCP February 29, 2012 News

24/2/2012 Serbian Church His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch awarded on February 22, 2012 in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade Messrs Milovan Vitezovic and Miodrag Vujovic with the Order of Saint Despot Stephen Lazarevic in the presence of the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church Their Graces Bishops: Vasilije of [...]

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Dr Dragutin Trickovic receives Order of Saint Sava of the Third degree

by OCP February 17, 2012 News

Serbian Church 16/2/2012 The Holy Holy Hierarchal Liturgy of the Serbian Orthodox Church gave primarius Dr Dragutin Trickovic, director of the Dr Vukan Čupić Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia in New Belgrade, with the highest distinction of the Serbian Orthodox Church – Order of Saint Sava of the Third Degree, for active [...]

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Unknown perpetrators desecrate church in Kosovo

by OCP February 13, 2012 News

Tanjug 12/2/2012 Unkown vandals have desecrated a Serb church in an eastern Kosovo town and stole a certain amount of money and a number of sacred objects they found inside. Unkown vandals have desecrated a Serb church in an eastern Kosovo town and stole a certain amount of money and a number of sacred objects [...]

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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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The Beloved Son of Serbian Orthodox Church Novak Djokovic wins Australian Open 2012

by OCP January 29, 2012 Featured News
Novak Djokovic of Serbia

Novak Djokovic belongs to the Serbian Orthodox Church. Read his biography here: 30/1/2012 By Ian Ransom Djokovic grinds down Nadal to win Australian Open MELBOURNE, Jan 30 (Reuters) – A fatigued Novak Djokovic stared down a ferocious challenge from Rafa Nadal to defend his Australian Open title early on Monday in the longest grand slam [...]

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Archbishop Jovan transferred to the strictest closed section of the “Idrizovo” prison

by OCP January 21, 2012 Featured News

19/1/2012 Archbishopric of Ohrid and Metropolitanate of Skopje – Serbian Orthodox Church His Beatitude Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje Jovan, on January 16th, in the afternoon hours, was transferred from the prison reception section to the closed section of the “Idrizovo” prison. Although the procedure of deciding whether he should be allowed a [...]

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Growing Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina

by OCP January 21, 2012 Featured News

John Newton and Eva-Marie Kolman 20/1/2012 Christians and moderate Muslims are trying to stem the tide of Islamo-fascism in the heart of the former Yugoslavia. The rise of radical Islam in Bosnia-Herzegovina is going unchallenged by the authorities, the country’s leading bishop has warned. Cardinal Vinko Puljic, the Archbishop of Sarajevo, highlighted the growth of [...]

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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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Patriarch calls on Serbs to stay in Kosovo-Metohija

by OCP January 6, 2012 Featured News

Emg.rs, Tanjug 6/1/2012 Patriarch of Serbia Irinej called on Thursday in the Christmas encyclical Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija to keep their home fire burning, and stay with their Church and holy sites in the land of their ancestors. Patriarch of Serbia Irinej called on Thursday in the Christmas encyclical Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija to keep their home [...]

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Old Holy Trinity church reaches deal on leadership

by OCP January 6, 2012 News

By Peter H. Milliken milliken@vindy.com YOUNGSTOWN 6/1/2012 As Saturday’s Serbian Orthodox Christmas observance approaches, the current and former officers and directors of the Old Holy Trinity Serbian Orthodox Church have reached a temporary reconciliation of their differences. After about two hours of negotiations in the Mahoning County Courthouse, lawyers for the two factions announced the [...]

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Dean of St. Vladimir’s Assists in Rebuilding Kosovo and Metochia

by OCP December 31, 2011 News

30/12/2011 Dean of St. Vladimir’s Academy, New York, Archpriest John Behr, has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of the Decani Monastery Relief Fund, a non-profit organization committed to rebuilding church and social life in Kosovo. The relief fund sponsors myriad humanitarian projects, including the one hundred fifty-three Serbian Orthodox churches and [...]

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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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Communique of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church

by OCP December 5, 2011 Featured News

5/12/2011 The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church with this appeal addresses all participants of the drama in the northern region of Kosovo and Metohija, with the warm prayer to God, the only Source of true peace, unity and love among peoples and nations, that they not allow this drama to be [...]

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Church: EU has alternative, Serbs Should Persevere

by OCP 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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