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Serbian patriarch urges rights for Kosovo-Metohija Serbs
BELGRADE - Patriarch Porfirije and all archbishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Thursday urged the international community to ensure to Kosovo-Metohija Serbs the same universal freedoms that ethnic Albanians and all other people in the world have.
Enthronement of Patriarch Porfirije on a Christian feast of the Mother of God PHOTO
During the ceremony where he is to be enthroned, Patriarch Porfirije serves a liturgy with several bishops.
Just to reiterate, the Pristina authorities previously forbade the director of the Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petkovic, to attend the enthronement.
Slovenian LGBT NGOs critical of Serbia’s ban on EuroPride
Ljubljana – LGBT organisations in Slovenia expressed their disappointment and concerns over Serbia’s recent decision to ban the EuroPride march that was supposed to take place in Belgrade this year. This shows the negligence by the current Serbian government in its treatment of social minorities, they said.
The Serbian Church Awarded the War Criminal Vojislav Seselj
The Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) awarded the leader of the extremist Serbian Radical Party (SRP), Vojislav Seselj, who in 2018 was sentenced to ten years in prison by the Hague Tribunal for inciting the persecution, deportation and forced displacement of Croats in the village of Hrtkovci in Vojvodina in 1992.
Serbia Orthodox Church ‘Shameful’ for Honouring Seselj, Party Says
Opposition party condemns Serbian Orthodox Church diocese for awarding the convicted war criminal Vojislav Seselj.
Europride begins; Will there be a walk?
The traditional walk, which the organizers insist on holding, is scheduled for Saturday, September 17, starting at 5 p.m. in front of the Serbian Parliament.
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Another March Against EuroPride in Belgrade
A third mass march in support of "traditional values" and the family took place last night in Belgrade.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that the European Pride, planned for September 12-18, will be cancelled. The reason was the crisis in Kosovo and Metohija and the risk of unrest. EuroPride organizers said the event would go ahead, but without the parade.
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Serbia: People Protest Against the Holding of European Pride in Belgrade
A protest of many thousands in Belgrade - people, most of them strongly religious and those with an extreme right-wing orientation, joined a procession against the holding of European pride in the Serbian capital.
Religious communities raise concern over gay marriage, adoptions
Ljubljana – The Council of Christian Churches and the Islamic Community in Slovenia have addressed a joint statement to the government and both houses of parliament to raise “concern over the changing of fundamental concepts of our society” after the Constitutional Court legalised same-sex marriages and adoptions.
No-Confidence Vote Topples the Government in Montenegro
The Parliament of Montenegro voted a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic, reported AFP.
The agency notes that this opens the way for new political upheavals in the small Balkan state. The previous coalition government was also voted out in February.