On Sunday, Bishop of Raska-Prizren Teodosije refuted the claims published by some Belgrade-based media that the late Patriarch Pavle was in favour of the division of Kosovo, reported Serbian media.

Bishop Teodosije opined that “the idea of a territorial-ethnic division of Serbia in KiM, which is nothing but an invitation for the betrayal of Kosovo, people and the state, all of us are being brought into a state of further confusion and hopelessness”.

Raska-Prizren Eparchy Bishop Teodosije served today a memorial service to 14 Serb harvesters, killed two decades ago, in the village of Staro Gracko, Lipljan municipality, SRNA news agency reported.

Following the service, Bishop Teodosije said that “for twenty years we gather in Staro Gracko and recall this heinous crime for which no one was held responsible”.

Bishop Teodosije also said unpunished criminals did not stop after killing the 14 harvesters, but mined the cemetery in 2000 and later demolished and desecrated a memorial plaque placed in the center of the village.

Raska-Prizren Eparchy Bishop Teodosije visited yesterday people injured in Kosovo police special unit action, who are staying in Mitrovica North Clinical Centre, Radio KIM reports.

Bishop Teodosije thanked the doctors and medical professionals there for their efforts to help those injured. He also wished them a speedy recovery.

Bishop Teodosije in particular spent the time with UNMIK member Mikhail Krasnoshchekov who was beaten up and injured.

Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Bishop Grigorije said that Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic did not disclose his plan for Kosovo at a recent meeting with Serbian Ortodox Churh Assembly.

Opposition Alliance for Serbia (SzS) accused yesterday evening Srpska Lista and Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) of uttering threats of violence and dismissal of people from northern Kosovo who expressed dissatisfaction over Vucic’s policy in “One of Five Million” protest walks, KoSSev portal reported.

Raska-Prizren Eparchy Bishop Teodosije sent a letter to TV Most in which a misunderstanding that occurred on Sunday at Saint Demetrious Church in Mitrovca North was clarified, TV Most reports.

In a letter the Bishop Teodosije noted there is a rule applicable in all Serbian Orthodox Church eparchies and it says that all media activities have to be announced in advance and a blessing for the recording inside of the Church premises should be timely requested.

Serbian Orthodox Church Raska-Prizren Eparchy reacted to yesterday’s
TV Most report saying that “Bishop Tedosije known for his harsh criticism of the
Serbian state representatives and the Serbs who do not think as he does,” has met
“secretly” with the Kosovo Internal Affairs Minister, KoSSev portal reported. The
Eparchy assessed such reporting “as obviously politically ordered news.”

The Bishops remain firmly against partition and any kind of recognition of the breakaway Serbian province. The Assembly of Bishops gave full support to Bishop Teodosije, his clergy, monastics and his faithful people in their efforts to survive amid difficult circumstances, reads the latest Communique of the Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church regarding Kosovo-Metohija.

The autumn session of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church took place in the Patriarchy in Belgrade on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Position of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) regarding Kosovo remains unchanged - neither partition, nor independence, Belgrade-based daily Blic reports today, adding the stance was reconfirmed during the first day of Holly Synod autumn session in Belgrade.

We have received an icon as a gift in such days when we are all making great efforts to survive in this town, not by our own strength, but by the power of God and the hope of the Mother of God – the Bishop of Raska and Prizren Teodosije praised the new gift presented to the Church of St. Demetrius in North Mitrovica, KoSSev portal reports.