NEWS

Information Service of
the Serbian Orthodox Church
March 22, 2002

ON SUNDAY
PATRIARCH PAVLE SERVES THE MEMORIAL SERVICE
FOR NATO AGGRESSION VICTIMS
IN THE SOKO MONASTERY

On Sunday, March 24, Sunday of Orthodoxy, His Holiness Pavle, Serbian Patriarch, is going to be the guest of His Grace Lavrentije, Bishop of Sabac-Valjevo. Patriarch Pavle and Bishop Lavrentije are going to serve memorial service for all the victims of NATO aggression on our Fatherland in the Soko Monastery, and thus mark the three-year anniversary of the bombardment.

It is expected that eminent State officials and various representatives of traditional Churches and religious communities are going to attend this prayerful gathering.

After this service, His Holiness is going to consecrate the monument dedicated to Bishop Nikolaj (Velimirovic) of blessed memory, authored by our famous sculptor Mrs Drinka Radovanovic.

According to the decision made by the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the memorial service for the victims of NATO aggression is going to be regularly served every year on March 24 in all the churches in the country and in diaspora, as well as in all the other places where people were killed and in the locations appropriate for such a service.

His Grace Atanasije, Auxiliary Bishop of His Holiness, Bishop of Hvosno, is going to serve the memorial service after the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Church of Saint Mark the Apostle and Evangelist.