UNESCO Director – General: “We are closely monitoring the situation in Kosovo” (KIM radio, Politika, Kontakt plus radio)
UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said the United Nations institution is closely monitoring the situation regarding the UN mission in Kosovo. “Our experts are helping to manage the World Heritage Sites that are listed on the Hazard List,” Azoulay told Belgrade based daily Politika. Responding to Politika questions on protected monuments in Kosovo, just after the […]
Read More →US Ambassador Kosnett attended liturgy in Visoki Decani Monastery (Radio KIM, social media)
Radio KIM reported that Serbian Orthodox Church Visoki Decani Monastery marked yesterday the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God. Displaced persons from Djakovica and Decane were among attendees. The Liturgy was also attended by the US Ambassador in Kosovo Philip Kosnett with his wife Alison and the US General Shaun Harris with […]
Read More →Raska-Prizren Eparchy strongly protests over flagrant violation of Law on Special Protection Zones, calls for urgent Implementation and Monitoring Council meeting (Serbian media, Raska-Prizren Eparchy)
Serbian Orthodox Church Raska-Prizren Eparchy expressed the strongest protest over recent unauthorized serving of Catholic mass on the remains of an old cathedral temple of Saint Nikola, seat of Novo Brdo Orthodox Metropolitans and main Orthodox Serbian temple in this medieval town, as well as placing political symbols of Kosovo on the Serbian medieval cultural, […]
Read More →Serbian Ministry of Culture: Hoxhaj to face the truth and learn the facts (KoSSev)
Enver Hoxhaj should find the strength to squarely face the truth and to learn the facts from numerous local and international, scientific and professional sources, the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information said in a response to Hoxhaj’s statement that ”Serbia is manipulating with facts by appropriating church objects as its own.” The Ministry wrote […]
Read More →Albanian historians: ”Abbot of Visoki Decani to apologize for genocide of the Serbian state and people. The monastery is Albanian ” (KoSSev)
The Presidency of the Association of Kosovo Historians ‘Ali Hadri’, the Decani branch, harshly reacted to statements by, as they assessed, an anti-Albanian priest – Abbot Sava Janjic, who has been serving in the Albanian Orthodox monastery of Decani, a monastery usurped by Serbian occupiers – since the medieval period. They gave the statement last […]
Read More →Serbian minister’s note to Vatican over Catholic mass at Kosovo Orthodox church (Beta, N1)
Serbian Culture Minister Vladan Vukosavljevic sent a note to the Vatican protesting what he said were tensions caused by Albanian Catholic priests who served mass on the ruins of a Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo. Albanian Catholic priests recently served mass on the ruins of the 14th century Orthodox cathedral of St Nicholas which was […]
Read More →Eparchy of Raska-Prizren reacts to the mass held at St. Nicholas Church in Novo Brdo (KoSSev, Raska-Prizren Eparchy)
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Kosovo Dode Gjergji and the retired Bishop of Bar Zef Gashi with their clergy and a group of believers served a mass on Thursday at the remains of the Orthodox Christian cathedral of St. Nicholas in the vicinity of the Novo Brdo medieval fortress, KoSSev portal reports. As it was […]
Read More →Srpska Lista condemns holding of mass in Novo Brdo (RTS)
Srpska Lista has condemned holding of the Catholic mass at the remains of the Orthodox Church Saint Nicholas in Novo Brdo, RTS reports. “The attempts of forging the history and seizing the Serbian cultural heritage have reached a new dimension in Kosovo and Meothija. The latest activities of the Catholic priesthood on the remains of […]
Read More →Heldt: Site in Novo Brdo only preserved, there would be no further works (KoSSev, Radio Gorazdevac)
German Ambassador in Pristina Christian Heldt commented on recent controversy related to changing the history that occurred after the Kosovo Ministry of Culture restoration of Saint Nikola Church in Novo Brdo, for which Serbian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts said it is a part of the Orthodox heritage, represented as […]
Read More →Serbs mark Vidovdan (Radio KIM, Radio kontakt plus, KoSSev, RTK2)
Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija mark today one of the most important holidays Vidovdan (St. Vidus Day). The central ceremonies were held in Gracanica and Gazimestan, Radio KIM reports. A liturgy was served in the Serbian Orthodox Church Monastery Gracanica, while the memorial for those who have fought in Kosovo Polje battle (1389) was severed […]
Read More →Delegation of the German Christian Democratic Union visited Visoki Decani (Kossev)
A group of senior officials of the German Christian Democratic Union, led by European Parliament Vice-President Reiner Wieland, visited the Visoki Decani Monastery today where they talked about the current situation in Kosovo, as well as about the monastery itself with Abbot Sava Janjic. Visoki Decani monastery announced in a Facebook post that Father Sava […]
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