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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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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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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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Ninth anniversary of anti-Serb violence in Kosovo

March 18, 2013 Featured News

Tanjug – 18/3/13 BELGRADE –  The Serbian government and the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) are today marking the ninth anniversary of pogrom in Kosovo. During the rampage, Albanian extremists and terrorists killed ten and expelled more than 4,000 Serbs, destroyed and burned 938 Serb houses and apartments and 35 Orthodox churches and monasteries in just [...]

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Bishop warns of “toughest times” for Serbs since 2004 pogrom

January 25, 2013 Featured News

TANJUG – 25/1/13 BELGRADE — A SPC bishop based in Kosovo has said that the position of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) has not been this difficult ever since March 2004. Ethnic Albanians at that time organized widespread attacks on Serbs, their property, and holy places. “Eight full years have passed since [...]

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MOC welcomes proposal for talks with SPC

November 2, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 1/11/2012 SKOPJE — The Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) has reacted to Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić’s proposal for resolving a dispute with the Serbian Orthodox Church. In a statement, the MOC Synod said that they expected the proposal “to lead toward the resumption of the suspended dialogue between the churches”. After a week-long analysis, the [...]

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Patriarch: Talks possible only in line with canons

November 2, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 1/11/2012 BELGRADE — Serbian Patriarch Irinej says the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) “will joyfully accept the talks with non-canonical Macedonian Orthodox Church (MPC)”. However, he specified in a statement for Tanjug on Monday, this will be possible “only in line with canons and previous agreements”. The most important agreement was signed in Niš in [...]

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“Differences with Roman Catholics should be overcome”

October 12, 2012 News

NIN, Tanjug 12/10/2012 BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej has spoken in favor of Roman Catholic Pope Benedict XVI visiting Serbia, Belgrade-based NIN weekly reported. The head of the Serbian Church also believes it was “high time the many unnecessary disputes and differences” that the SPC had with other Christian denominations, “particularly with [...]

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SPC condemns possible removal of church in Kosovo

October 7, 2012 Featured News

Tanjug 7/9/2012 GRAČANICA — The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Raška-Prizren Eparchy opposed on Tuesday the removal of an unfinished church in Priština. The eparchy also opposed its turning into a memorial museum of Kosovo Albanians, underlining that this constituted an open call for discrimination and continued destruction of the Serb heritage in Kosovo. The eparchy [...]

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SPC metropolitan:Pope should first visit Jasenovac

August 20, 2012 Featured News

20/8/2012 NOVI SAD – Metropolitan Jovan of Zagreb, Ljubljana and the entire Italy stated on Sunday that before coming to Serbia, head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Benedict XVI should visit Jasenovac and honour the memory of the victims killed in the prison camp set up by the Nazi puppet state Croatia. Metropolitan Jovan [...]

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Patriarch: Church will never agree to surrender of Kosovo

July 13, 2012 Featured News

Tanjug 12/7/2012 BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej called for unity among Serbs, adding that the Church (SPC) would never agree or come to terms with Kosovo “being given away”. rinej called on the people to be united in politics and everything else, because the Serbs are a small people and the only way to [...]

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Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem, Patriarch Says

June 29, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 29/6/2012 GRAČANICA — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej has said in Gračanica that Kosovo was, is, and will be the holy Serb land – the Serbian Jerusalem. The patriarch served holy liturgy for Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day) on Thursday, in the Serb enclave south of the Ibar River. In a speech he held [...]

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Six Vraniskovski’s associates ordered detention

May 23, 2012 News

Tanjug 23/5/2012 A Macedonian court issued orders for six people suspected of involvement in money laundering together with Serbian Orthodox Church Archbishop of Ohrid Jovan Vraniskovski to be remanded in custody, while thirteen more people had their travel documents taken away from them after a hearing before an investigative judge. A Macedonian court issued orders [...]

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NIS to help preserve Orthodox temples

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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Montenegro “wants to humiliate SPC”

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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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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SPC head organizes reception at Patriarchy

January 13, 2012 News

TANJUG 12/1/2012 BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej on Wednesday organized the Christmas reception at the Patriarchy building in Belgrade. The reception was attended by Deputy PM and Interior Minister Ivica Dačić, who told reporters after the event that he did not speak to the patriarch today, and was “just one of the guests”. [...]

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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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UNESCO to help preserve cultural heritage in Kosovo-Metohija

November 27, 2011 News

Tanjug 26/11/2011 UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova sent a letter to Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) in which she asserted that the organisation is closely cooperating with UNMIK, authorities and all other individuals committed to safeguarding the important cultural heritage of humankind, in the preservation of mediaeval monuments in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) which [...]

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FM to UNESCO: Don’t allow theft of our heritage

October 31, 2011 News

TANJUG 31/10/2011 PARIS — Monasteries and churches of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) cannot belong to the so-called “Republic of Kosovo”, FM Vuk Jeremić says. Addressing the UNESCO General Conference in Paris on Monday, Jeremić stated: “In this organization, we are supposed to protect and nurture cultural identities, not be complicit in politicized attempts to [...]

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Patriarch emerges as “most vocal opposition”

October 21, 2011 Featured News

19.10.2011 BELGRADE — The SPC patriarch has emerged as the most vocal opposition to the government on the issue of the EU and the conditions for continued integrations, says a daily. Belgrade-based Danas newspaper is writing that Patriarch Irinej’s strong statements about the EU and Kosovo are more radical that those voiced by most opposition [...]

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Metropolitan accuses Montenegro of persecuting SPC

October 13, 2011 News

9.10.2011 PODGORICA — Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije has accused the Montenegrin authorities of persecuting the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and its priests. He added that those who fought against God were always punished. Amfilohije criticized the Montenegrin authorities for preventing the construction of churches and favoring the non-canonical and unrecognized Montenegrin Orthodox [...]

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SPC restores Committee for Kosovo Office

October 5, 2011 Featured News

TANJUG 5/10/2011 The SPC said in a statement that the committee’s office will be headed by Bishop Jovan of Ljipljan, who was appointed secretary of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija. The task of the office will be organization and documentation of work of the Committee for Kosovo-Metohija, as well as creation of archives and [...]

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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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Montenegro: Trial of SPC dignitary ontinues

September 12, 2011 News

B92, BETA 12.09.2011 PODGORICA — The trial of Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Metropolitan Amfilohije is scheduled to resume on Monday in Podgorica, Montenegro. The case is handled by the Podgorica Misdemeanor Court. The church dignitary was charged with hate speech. The Higher State Prosecution of Montenegro indicted Metropolitan Amfilohije for “cursing all those who wished [...]

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