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Renewed Continuation of Illegal Construction work on Decani-Plav Highway within Visoki Dečani Monastery’s Special Protective Zone

August 14, 2020 interference by State, Kosovo (territory)

August 14, 2020. Despite Kosovo’s Law on Special Protective Zones explicitly forbidding building highways and transit roads through Special Protective Zones, the unambiguous stance of the Law’s Implementation Council, and the position of international representatives in Kosovo that the construction of a Dečani-Plav highway through the Monastery’s Protective Zone constitutes an illegal act, the local Kosovar authorities in Dečani, together with […]

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Another Serbian Orthodox Church Burgled

May 8, 2019 Kosovo (territory), symbolic attack

May 7, 2019 – the Saint Parascheva Church in village Gojbulja (Vučitrn Municipality, Kosovo) was burgled. Namely, some time around 4 p.m. the faithful noticed that the door of the church was burgled, and that the donations in the amount of around 20 Euros, left after the liturgy served a day before, were stolen. The police was informed and responded […]

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St Trinity’s Church was Burgled for the 19th Time (since 1999)

February 10, 2019 Kosovo (territory)

February 11, 2019 – On 10 February 2019 late night the St Trinity’s Church (the Serbian Orthodox Church), situated in the village Babljak[note] The local faithful of Serbian Orthodox Church are Serbs who have returned back to their houses in the village Babljak after the 1999 bombing and 2004 March incidents [/note], nearby Uroševac (Albanian: Ferizaj) in Kosovo, was burgled. […]

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The founder of the humanitarian fund for assistance to the resettled Serbs was not allowed into Kosovo with the Christmas humanitarian convoy

December 28, 2018 Kosovo (territory)

December 28, 2018. Franco-Serbian humanitarian Arno Gujon posted on his Facebook page that he was stopped at the Jarinje, entry-exit checkpoint, last night when he attempted to enter Kosovo and Metohija. Mr Gujon led the Christmas convoy for Kosovo and Metohija as he had been doing for the past 14 years. This great Serbian-French humanitarian said that it was difficult […]

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Kosovo Institutions Threatened Monks and Nuns from the Serbian Orthodox Church with Deportation

November 9, 2018 Kosovo (territory)

November 9, 2018 – After an attempt to renew residence permit, one of the monks of the Raška-Prizren Diocese faced a threat that, within few days, he could be deported outside of Kosovo and Metohija (KiM). The problem of documents, that majority of Kosovo Serbs have, has proven to be one of the most serious problems the Serbs have been […]

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