Belgrade based daily Danas writes about the meeting of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic with the SPC Assembly and Patriarch Irinej. Patriarch's praise for President Vucic and his "heroic fight for Serbia, Kosovo and Metohija and all that is related to the Serbian name" are not the position of the Holy Archbishop's Assembly, as stated by the SPC leader, Danas was told by SPC Assembly's circles.
Nikola Selakovic said on Wednesday that President Aleksandar Vucic "did not discipline anybody" at the Holy Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC). According to Selakovic, who is the president's general secretary, the outcome of the meeting is that now a majority of bishops have a clearer picture of the position and policy of Serbia regarding the issue of Kosovo. This conversation was not easy, but it was useful, Selakovic said.
Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic said late on Monday he informed the Holy Synod of the Serb Orthodox Church about "all my worries," adding Patriarch Irinej, who said Vucic's fight for Kosovo was heroic, understood him well, N1 reported.
Vucic was present at the Holy Synod annual meeting in the Patriarchy in Belgrade.
President Vucic is fighting for Serbia, Kosovo all that is linked to the Serb name heroically, says the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
"We do not doubt his good intentions and the effort that we see," Patriarch Irinej emphasized late on Monday in Belgrade, after a two-hour meeting with Vucic.
Kosovo Albanian media reported on Sunday that the Kosovo police is guarding the Serbian Orthodox churches for 9 years now, having received this responsibility from KFOR, KoSSev portal reported.
According to the data of Raska-Prizren Eparchy, although it is true that 16 churches in the territory of Kosovo are under the constant protection of the Kosovo police, while two more are regularly visited by police patrols, one of the most important Serbian Orthodox Church temples in Kosovo, Visoki Decani Monastery is still under KFOR’s protection.
The monks of the Serbian Orthodox Church Monastery of Visoki Decani expressed their deep solidarity with all Christians and citizens of France regarding the fire that ravaged Notre Dame on Monday. „May God grant the speedy reconstruction of this beautiful church so that it may rise again in all its splendor,“ they said.
Kosovo police reported about two theft cases affecting the Serb community. A house belonging to the Serb returnee in the village of Brestovik, Pec municipality was burglarized, while the Serbian Orthodox Church of Saint Petka in the village of Suvi Do, Mitrovica North was broken into.
The Church in Suvi Do village was broken into; a certain amount of money was stolen while the furniture inside the church was demolished. The same church was the target of another theft two months ago, when the thieves stole a small amount of cash.
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.”
Serbia’s high-ranking officials met Patriarch Irinej on Sunday to inform him about the current situation in the country, which President Aleksandar Vucic assessed as “difficult.”
Besides President Vucic, the meeting was attended by Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic.
Prime Minister Ana Brnabic announced that on Sunday, she, President Aleksandar Vucic and Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic would meet Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej to discuss about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija, Tanjug news agency reported.
“On Sunday at 7.30 we would meet with the Patriarch Irinej and Serbian Orthodox Church Synod to discuss about the situation in Kosovo and Metohija since the dialogue is stopped,” Brnabic told journalists following the session of the Serbian Council for National Security this morning.