MITROVICA, Kosovo — “This is a piece of heaven on earth,” the monk said. “When you are here, you feel it.”
Dressed in a long black robe and stroking a long black beard, the monk’s words would seem a simple phrase, a holy man talking about a holy place.
But nothing is simple here.
His home, the Banjska Monastery, is set high above a village just outside of Mitrovica in Kosovo — a divided city in a divided country that still bears the scars and nurses the slights of wars dating back more than 600 years.
