Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) is actively considering a special meeting of the Holy Assembly of Bishops with Kosovo and Metohija as the main topic.
As Tanjug learns from the well-informed church circles, the special meeting is a possibility even though the Church's stance "on the issue remains clear and unchanged".
The Church's position, announced after the May meeting, is that Serbia must not lose Kosovo.
Ahead of an announced referendum on Kosovo, the former province is likely to be high on the agenda of the upcoming Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church - a staunch opponent of Kosovo's independence.
Kosovo is likely to be a hot issue at the upcoming Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which has taken a lead position in attacking talk of Kosovo's partition, or of recognising its independence, Church experts say.
Abbot of Visoki Decani Monastery, Father Sava Janjic said that assassinated leader of Civic Initiative, Freedom, Democracy, Justice (GI SDP) Oliver Ivanovic was an obstacle to certain dark structures, B92 reported.
“Let's hope the current unmasking will contribute to learning truth about the murder of Oliver Ivanovic, a man who was an obstacle to certain structures, apparently on both or more sides, for carrying out an ominous scenario in Kosovo this year. Oliver speaks now louder than ever,” Abbot Janjic wrote on social media.
As we said it on time, delineation is in fact a defeatist division of de jure Serbian territory on ethnic principle – the North of Kosovo for Presevo and Bujanovac. Masks have fallen, let them justify themselves before people and history, if they can, Abbot Sava Janjic wrote on Twitter.
Recognition of the position of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo and maintaining a legal regime of protection for 44 facilities that represent special zones of Serbian cultural and religious heritage, will be among the key demands of Belgrade during the dialogue on a comprehensive solution for normalizing relations with Pristina, writes Belgrade based daily Vecernje Novosti.
„The warmongering rhetoric of certain media since the beginning of June, but also the concrete intentions to ‘spontaneously’ provoke the territorial partition, have rightfully deeply concerned our Bishop and forced him to react,” Abbot of Visoki Decani Sava Janjic said, KoSSev portal reported.
Serbian Orthodox Church Raska-Prizren Eparchy Bishop Teodosije has served yesterday evening “Moleban for Kosovo and Metohija” (prayer of supplication) in the church of St. Dimitrije in Mitrovica North, Radio kontakt plus reported.
-During the last few decades, every warning sent at crucial moments by the Serbian Orthodox Church to the states of Yugoslavia and Serbia has proved to be true, and every time a disagreement between the church and the state occurred, the consequences were catastrophic, says Zivojin Rakocevic, novelist and journalist from Gracanica.
„I want Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija not only to have a nice weekend, but nice weeks and months ahead of us, and I want them to feel safe. I know how difficult it is for them, especially in Metohija, but also for Serbs everywhere,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said, following his meeting with Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej in Belgrade on Saturday.
Members of Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (SANU), professors and journalists sent a protest statement “over attacks against the Serbian Orthodox Church and Raska-Prizren Eparchy,” Serbian media reported.