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Migrants from Kosovo "find new route" in bid to reach EU

PRISTINA -- Ethnic Albanians continue to leave Kosovo in great numbers even after their departure via Merdare has been prevented.

Buses carrying immigrants headed for Hungary and on to other EU countries are no longer allowed to go via this administrative line crossing, located between Kosovo and central Serbia.

Vucic and SPC patriarch meet, discuss Kosovo

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Tuesday in Belgrade with Patriarch Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC).

During the meeting the prime minister informed the head of the Serbian Church about his recent visit to Kosovo and Metohija.

LIPLJAN - Graffiti of Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) appeared on the walls of the Orthodox church of Saint Flora and Lavre in Lipljan on Saturday morning, Radio Television of Kosovo (RTK) reported in a Serbian-language show.

The police and the Diocese of Raska and Prizren have been notified about the incident.

NOVO BRDO - Director of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Marko Djuric visited the soup kitchen in the village of Prekovce, municipality of Novo Brdo in Kosovo-Metohija (KiM), to mark the holiday of Orthodox Christmas on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The funds allocated by the Serbian government were used in Kosovo and Metohija (KiM) in the past eight months to build 25 houses and four buildings with more than 40 housing units and to complete 20 projects of repair and construction of local roads, Marko Djuric, director of the Serbian government's Office for KiM, said on Monday.

Another Serb monastery defaced with graffiti

ORAHOVAC -- Unidentified perpetrators wrote graffiti reading "KLA" (Kosovo Liberation Army) and "Kosovo" in the yard of the Sebian Orthodox Monastery in Zociste, in Kosovo.

The Diocese of Raska and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church qualified this as "a new provocation."

ORAHOVAC - Unidentified perpetrators have daubed graffiti reading "KLA" (Kosovo Liberation Army) and "Kosovo" within the courtyard of the Sveti Vracci (Holy Healers) Monastery in Zocciste, western Kosovo-Metohija, and the Diocese of Raska and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church qualified this as a new provocation.

BELGRADE - Dignitaries of the main religious communities in Kosovo-Metohija condemned the recent acts of vandalism in the Decani Monastery.

They agreed that these despicable acts, followed also by some web attacks, were sought to undermine the inviolable principles of tolerance and reconciliation in Kosovo society.

BERLIN - On the occasion of seven centuries of existence of the Banjska Monastery in Kosovo-Metohija, the ensemble of the Serbian National Theatre from Pristina staged a play entitled "Banjsko zlato" (the Gold of Banjska) at the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) in Dusseldorf.

PRISTINA - Several hundred ethnic Albanians in the Musutiste village in the south of Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) has blocked the passage to the local Orthodox church to prevent displaced Serbs from Suva Reka and the surrounding villages from getting there to celebrate the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God.