News archive on the topic "Serbian Church"

Attempts to restore the “Croatian Orthodox Church”, which operated in the notorious collaborationist Independent State of Croatia in the former Yugoslavia, are directly related to what is happening now in Ukraine. Archpriest Darko Djogo, a Serbian theologian, professor and dean of the Orthodox Theological Faculty in Foca, told PolitNavigator about this. What is behind the intention to restore the “Croatian Orthodox Church” from the Second World War...

On the territory of the Serbian Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija, captured with NATO support by Albanian separatists, the enthronement ceremony of Patriarch of Serbia Porfiry took place, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Porfiry was enthroned on October 14, 2022, on the feast of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, to the most holy throne of the Archbishop of Pecs and Patriarch of Serbia in the ancient monastery of the Pecs Patriarchate, the official portal of the SOC reported. Metropolitan Porfiry of Zagreb-Ljubljana...

For several days now, there have been protests in Montenegro by local nationalists who expressed dissatisfaction with the authorities’ plans to sign an agreement with the Serbian Orthodox Church. The main initiators of the protests were pro-Western NGOs. As in Ukraine, they support the creation of their own independent schismatic “Montenegrin Orthodox Church”. The false metropolitan of the “ChOC” Mirash Dedeich stated that his structure is obliged to have the same rights as the SOC.…

The Macedonian Church, which several decades ago went into schism and broke relations with the Serbian Orthodox Church, has restored Eucharistic communion with the SOC. This news looks like a sensation, because the Patriarch of Constantinople was ready to recognize the Macedonian Church, but this proposal was rejected. However, observers fear that we may be talking about a deal, the subject of which will be the fate of the Moscow parishes...

Serbian Patriarch Porfiry arrived in the Bosnian Serb town of Doboj, where he served a liturgy in honor of the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord in a special “Slavic” rite. Balkan media note that this is the first visit of the head of the SOC to Doboj in 83 years. As the RTRS television channel clarifies, the event, along with numerous believers, was attended by President of the Republika Srpska Zeljka Cvijanovic, Prime Minister Radovan Viskovic,…

The Rasko-Prizren diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, which cares for Kosovo and Metohija, said that the Albanian regime did not allow pilgrims to the ruins of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Musutiste. “The Diocese of Raško-Prizren expresses serious concern about the growing number of cases in which our believers, who were forced to leave for central Serbia at one time, are prohibited from visiting our shrines, cemeteries and participating in church...

The influential American magazine National Interest took the side of the Serbian Orthodox Church in its conflict with the government of Montenegro, which adopted a scandalous law “on freedom of religion” that allows the confiscation of churches and monasteries.” The magazine's authors call Djukanovic a kleptocratic dictator, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The motives of Djukanovic (President of Montenegro - ed.) are quite transparent. From an economic point of view, the new law allows Djukanovic's kleptocracy to take over...