May 26, 2018. Thanks to a number of international interventions during the 26 th of May, Kosovo authorities have stopped the illegal works on the road within the Dečani Monastery protected zone and the heavy machines have reportedly been withdrawn. Let us hope Kosovo institutions will respect their legislation and international obligations. We are grateful to all people of good […]
» Read moreMay 26, 2018. On the occasion of the beginning of heavy construction works on the road from Dečani (Kosovo) to Plav (Montenegro) despite the Kosovo law and UNESCO heritage standards, the Government of Kosovo in a most blatant way endangers one of the prime UNESCO World Heritage Monuments in the Balkans. The Diocese of Raška-Prizren (Serbian Orthodox Church) has issued […]
» Read moreJune 23, 2018. The Supreme Court reviewed the case of the Sretensky temple (the Church of the Presentation of the Lord) not in favor of the believers of the Gorlovka eparchy of UOC. On June 19, the judicial panel of the Supreme Court, reversing the decisions of previous courts, decided to refuse the claims of the Gorlovka eparchy of the […]
» Read moreMay 21, 2018. Three innocent people, including two Internal Affairs officers, were killed when Muslim terrorists attempted to capture the Church of the Archangel Michael in Grozny, the capital city of the Russian Chechen Republic, during the Saturday evening service. The four militants were also killed by Special Ops forces: “The militants infiltrated the Church of the Archangel Michael to […]
» Read moreJune 21, 2018. Thousands of church and monastery buildings were confiscated and repurposed by the government throughout the USSR. Since its fall, the process of returning those buildings to their rightful owner—the Russian Orthodox Church—has been ongoing. The latest development in this process comes from late last month, when the Moscow Department of Municipal Property issued an order, dated May […]
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