Chairperson of European Movement, Rada Trajkovic told RTV KIM that Belgrade authorities and Srpska Lista run inappropriate campaign against Bishop Teodosije, placing the church as a target in order to expel Serbs from Kosovo.

Serbian Foreign Affairs Minister Ivica Dacic told RTS that at this moment USA and Russia absolutely support the Brussels dialogue and are ready to accept a solution that is reached in the agreement. We are proposing peaceful and compromise solution for the future of Serbia, Dacic added.

Unknown perpetrators robbed the Serbian Orthodox Church of Holly Virgin and parish house in the village of Babin Most, nearby Obilic on Friday evening, KIM Radio reported.

The village inhabitants noticed the church was robbed and reported the case to the police. The church door was broken, money from the church stolen, and a window was broken on the parish house.

According to Jovica Nikolic, the chairperson of a local Church Council, inhabitants are concerned and worried over uncertainty. They do not know what to expect, Nikolic said.

“For our Church, division of Kosovo and Metohija often mentioned in the media, is not only a political matter, but the matter of destiny of dozen thousands of our believers and the most important holy shrines,” Raska-Prizren Eparchy said in a statement, KIM Radio reported.

The reaction came following a wave of attacks by Serbian authorities’ representatives and the media, after the Eparchy issued an appeal “on the division of Kosovo and Metohija,” KIM Radio recalled.

Serb National Forum (SNF) said yesterday it disagrees with the statement of Srpska Lista (SL) that “majority stance” of the Serb population in Kosovo and Metohija is to support any solution Belgrade proposes for the Kosovo issue, Danas daily reported.

Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo does not ask for financial help from the Kosovo Government, but to pay the rent for using the premise owned by the Serbian Orthodox Church in Pristina, where Kosovo Anti-Corruption Agency is seated, Abbot of Visoki Decani Monastery Father Sava Janjic told Radio Free Europe.

According to Radio Free Europe, Kosovo Government told them they have completed that obligation. The premise used by the Anti-Corruption Agency according to cadastral records belongs to the Serbian Orthodox Church Saint Nikola Temple in Pristina.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic warned that if Kosovo and Metohija issue is not resolved, in 20 years Serbia would lose everything, RTS reported. President Vucic was asked to comment on an appeal sent by the Serbian Orthodox Church Raska-Prizren Eparchy Bishop Teodosije, expressing concern over statements by some politicians from both sides regarding delineation.

In an appeal, Bishop Teodosije warned that division of the territories would lead to the departure of Serbs from the southern province and destruction of cultural heritage.

As a Bishop of Raška and Prizren and an Archpastor of the Orthodox Christians in the regions of Kosovo, Metohija and Raška, with tremendous pastoral and moral responsibility I feel the need to express my grave concern regarding a series of political statements on Kosovo-Metohija in the recent time which fill our hearts with increasing uncertainty and disquiet.

A group of Serbian academics, politicians, public personalities and heads of the Serbian Orthodox Church Monasteries in a written statement published by Belgrade-based daily Danas warned President Vucic that “signing of legally-binding agreement on comprehensive normalization of relations with Kosovo or division of Kosovo and Metohija between Serbia and so-called Kosovo would be the most defeating act in a modern Serbian history.”

Metropolitan Amfilohije Radovic, a Serbian Orthodox bishop, the current head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, said on Thursday that who called a referendum on Kosovo status “has no sound mind,” Kossev website reported.