The graffitti with the acronyme of the Kosovo Albanian wartime rebel organization UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army) were painted last night on the gate of Visoki Dečani Monastery, one of major Serbian Orthodox sites in Kosovo. This is the most recent provocation in the series of similar incidents by K/Albanian extremists who have painted hate speech graffitti on the walls of the Djakovica Orthodox church and Serbian homes in Orahovac earlier this year. This time the extremists left their message on the Monastery Decani gate, just a few dozens of meters away from the Italian KFOR peacekeepers' checkpoint.
THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH TO HER SPIRITUAL CHILDREN AT PASCHA, 2014
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BY THE GRACE OF GOD ORTHODOX ARCHBISHOP OF PEC, METROPOLITAN OF BELGRADE-KARLOVCI AND SERBIAN PATRIARCH, WITH ALL THE HIERARCHS OF THE SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH – TO ALL THE CLERGY, MONASTICSS, AND ALL THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF OUR HOLY CHURCH: GRACE, MERCY AND PEACE FROM GOD THE FATHER, AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, WITH THE JOYOUS PASCHAL GREETING:
CHRIST IS RISEN! INDEED HE IS RISEN!
Message of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches
(Phanar, March 6-9, 2014)
On March 11, 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia led the 14th annual ceremony of awarding the Patriarch Alexy II Prize of the Unity of Orthodox Nations International Public Foundation granted for “outstanding work to consolidate the unity of Orthodox nations and to promote Christian values in the life of society”.