86th Annual Memorial to Pupin

On Sunday, March 14, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America, at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, in New York, with the concelebration of Protopresbyter Djokan Majstorovic, Presbyter Milan Dragovic and Protodeacon Milos Zdralic, served a memorial service at the grave of Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin.

The Consul of Serbia in New York, Mrs. Olgica Vlacic, together with representatives of the Embassy of Serbia from Washington, DC, laid flowers at the grave of Mihajlo Pupin and his wife Sara Catharine. Numerous distinguished visitors to Woodlawn Cemetery, Orthodox Serbs and others, local and international, regularly pay their respects at the grave of this great son of Serbia.

Canonical visit to Minnesota

His Grace Bishop Longin of New Gracanica-Midwestern America in canonical visit to parishes in Minnesota

Serbs emigrated to Minnesota at the turn of the 20th century and settled in three highly industrialized areas.: The Iron Range, Duluth and the St. Paul-Minneapolis metropolitan area (The Тwin Cities). In all these regions, Serbs built their churches.

Tonsures in the Monastery of Privina Glava

According to Radio Slovo Ljubve, in the monastery of Privina Glava near Sid on March 13, 2021, on the Eve of the beginning of Lent, His Grace Bishop Vasilije of Srem tonsured five novices.

The newly tonsured nuns were given the names: Natalija, Apolinarija, Pelagija, Vasilija and Hristina, while Father Makarije was appointed abbot of this shrine dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. 

Churches of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren targeted in recent string of burglaries and thefts

In the past few weeks, burglaries and thefts of Orthodox churches have taken place on the territory of the Diocese of Raska and Prizren.

In the last ten days alone, six of our churches and church buildings have been burglarized and looted. According to the reports submitted to the Diocese by parish priests, the break-ins took place at the following locations:

Visit to the Temporary COVID Hospital in Stark Arena

With the blessing of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Porfirije and with the approval of the Ministry of Defense, representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Church visited the Temporary COVID Hospital in Stark Arena in Belgrade on March 17, 2021 (photo gallery).

Protopresbyter-staurophor Vladimir Vukasinovic, head of the Ruzica church; priest Zoran Kerezovic, priest at the Clinical Center of Serbia; hieromonk Efrosin Uko, a graduate of the Faculty of Theology; deacons of the Ruzica church Srboljub Ubiparipovic, vice dean of the Orthodox Theological Faculty, and Vladimir Radovanovic, manager of the Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church; religious teachers deacons Stevan Jovanovic and Velibor Martinovic and student Kristina Davidovic visited the Temporary COVID Hospital in Stark Arena in Belgrade.

Anniversary of the March Pogrom in Kosovo and Metohia

• Pogrom on Kosovo and Metohia
• Распето Косово Crucified Kosovo - list of news
•  #NoKosovoUnesco

Here you can also download the chapters of the book March Pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija, published in 2004 by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and the Museum in Pristina (with relocated headquarters):

• Fate of cultural heritage in Kosovo and Metohia= (pdf, 864KB)
• Religious objects and cultural properties destroyed in the March Pogrom (pdf, 3,48MB)
• Religious objects and cultural properties in Kosovo and Metohia in period between 1999 and 2004 (pdf, 3,41MB)
• Cultural Properties at Risk in Kosovo and Metohia (pdf, 4,63MB)
• Bibliography (pdf, 536KB)

It is 17 years since 4,012 Serbs were expelled from Kosovo and Metohia in destructive attacks by Albanian extremists, and most of them have not returned to their homes to this day.

In the wave of violence in Kosovo and Metohija, 19 people were killed then, eight of them Serbs, while 11 Albanians were killed in a clash with members of the international security forces. At least 170 Serbs were injured, as well as dozens of members of the international force who clashed with local Albanians protecting Serbs and their property. About 800 Serb houses were demolished and 35 religious buildings set on fire, including 18 cultural monuments, including the Church of Our Lady of Ljevis in Prizren.