The Orthodox Church in Novo Brdo converted into Catholic? (KIM radio, Sputnik, B92)
Radio KiM reports that the remains of the Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in Novo Brdo is being converted by Pristina authorities into a three-necked basilica, which is a great forgery, warned Marko Popovic, co-author of the monograph dedicated to the church. Popovic claims that a part of the conservation works has already been done, […]
Read More →Church desecrated in Vitina municipality (KIM radio, TV Most, Kontakt plus radio, N1, Beta)
The Orthodox church of St Nicholas in a village Grncare, in the municipality of Vitina, has been robbed and vandalized, announced the Serbian List on Monday. The List said that the interior of the church had been desecrated and called for the perpetrators to be found quickly “in order to send a clear message that this type […]
Read More →Dugolli: We oppose court’s decision in favour of Orthodox Church (Koha)
Bujar Dugolli, dean of Philological Faculty of University of Pristina, said they consider the decision of the Appeals Court to uphold a previous ruling giving the Orthodox Church ownership over a plot of land within the university campus to be “shameful” and “unjust”. Dugolli said the UP’s opposition to the court ruling is not an […]
Read More →Students try to put up pictures of massacres at the Orthodox Church building in Pristina (Kosovapress)
A group of University of Pristina students gathered today in the university campus, namely in front of the unfinished Orthodox Church building, and tried to put of pictures of massacres Serb forces committed against the Albanian population. However, the Kosovo Police reacted by preventing the students from putting up the pictures. Students said their action […]
Read More →Headlines 7 January
• Kosovo Assembly to hold extraordinary session for Haradinaj (Koha)
• Haradinaj’s release demanded in a protest in France (Telegrafi)
• Haliti: Mitrovica North wall not to be demolished by 20 January (RTK)
• Citizens oppose visit of Serb pilgrims to Gjakova/Djakovica (Koha)
Jevtić: Street has become a place where decisions are made (Kontakt plus radio)
Minister in the Kosovo Government for Return and Communities, Dalibor Jevtić said the Saturday’s events in Pristina were a result of “everything that lately we have in Kosovo – the street has become a place where decisions are made instead the institutions to strengthen.” Around 30 Albanian students of the University of Pristina gathered in […]
Read More →Headlines 19 September
• Border demarcation to be voted in October (Koha Ditore)
• Opposition says yes to Mustafa’s invitation (Zëri)
• Slim chances for visa liberalisation this year (Koha Ditore)
• Beyani: Serbia and Kosovo to find durable solution for IDPs (Bota Sot)
• Thaçi against demolition of the Orthodox Church in Pristina (Zëri)
• Vetëvendosje: Agreement on registration plates, shameful (RTK)
No human remains found near the Orthodox Church in Pristina university campus (Koha)
Forensic teams carrying out investigations into a possible mass grave site near the building of the Orthodox Church inside the Pristina university campus found no human remains on the site, announced the chairman of the Kosovo government commission for missing persons, Prenk Gjetaj. He said however that the forensic teams have now shifted the excavations […]
Read More →UNMIK Headlines 7 January
• Thaci: Opposition blinded by thirst for power (Epoka e Re)
• Hoxhaj seen as possible candidate to replace Thaci (Zeri)
• Serb pilgrims visit Orthodox church in Gjakova/Djakovica (dailies)
For the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo status of Vatican? (Radio Kontact Plus)
President Tomislav Nikolic and Patriarch Irinej discussed at the Patriarchy the possibility to propose Vatican model for the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) in Kosovo. They met in the midst of preparing for the resumption of dialogue with Pristina, since Serbian negotiating team announced intention of the government to nominate the issue of […]
Read More →World must protect the Serbian heritage in Kosovo (Vecernje Novosti)
In an interview given to daily Novosti, former minister in French government and candidate for the president of the Paris region, Valerie Pecresse said: “We will accept representatives of the Serbian religious community, so they could inform us about their experiences related to the dramatic situation in Kosovo. We must find the way to protect […]
Read More →Pristina creates its own Orthodox Church (Vesti, TV Most)
Political leadership in Pristina considers that it has lost just one battle but not the war, and in two years Kosovo will, better prepared and with a stronger international lobbying, again apply for membership in the United Nations agency that deals with the protection of cultural heritage in the world. In the meantime, because of […]
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