January 31, 2016. The Diocese of Raška and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church gave a communique about the incident out of Visoki Dečani Serbian Orthodox Monastery (Kosovo), as the official website of the Prizren diocese reports. A group of four armed Islamists were arrested in front of Visoki Dečani Monastery. The arrested stopped in front of the monastery main […]
» Read moreJanuary 29, 2016. Regarding the media attacks of some individuals and associations on the Serbian Orthodox Church, its clergy and the faithful in Croatia, Metropolitan Porfirije made the following statement, as the official website of the Serbian Orthodox Church reports. “The reason, but not a motive or a cause, for brutal, unprecedented attacks and calls for lynching of the Serbian […]
» Read moreJanuary 29, 2016. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia Kirill stated that the orthodox schools are discriminated against in the matter of funding as Interfax reports. “Though the principle of equal funding of public and private schools is enshrined in the legislation some regional governments are seeking ways to reduce funding of orthodox schools compared to the […]
» Read moreJanuary 28, 2016. After seven months of postponing of the scheduled court hearings, on 28th January 2016, in the Court of First Instance in Skopje started, the politically rigged court process against His Beatitude Archbishop Jovan of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje, two Bishops, priests, monastics and believers of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric. The Orthodox Archdiocese of Ohrid published a […]
» Read moreJanuary 25, 2016. Act of vandalism was created by a resident of the city of Zhytomyr. It happened on the site of future temple construction, situated on Privokzalnaya place. As it was found out by the police officers, the man does not affiliate with any religion, as reported by the Union of Orthodox Journalists. According to the 34 year-old resident […]
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