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by bcadmin | Sep 7, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, gay pride, LGBT, News, Orthodox Church, Serbia | 0 |
The head of Serbia’s powerful Orthodox Church on Tuesday supported a ban on a pan-European LGBTQ event due to take place in Belgrade next week, saying that the topic has been “artificially imposed” and threatens traditional values in the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 24, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, News, North Macedonia, Orthodox Church, Serbia | 0 |
The head of Serbia’s Orthodox Church said Tuesday that he would recognize the full independence of the church in neighboring North Macedonia, signaling an end to a decades-old religious dispute.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 11, 2022 | COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Orthodox Church, Serbia | 0 |
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Porfirije has tested positive for COVID-19, the church said on Tuesday, amid a surge in infections in the country and elsewhere in the Balkan region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 9, 2022 | Associated Press, Bosnia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Church in Europe, Civil war, ethnic violence, News, Orthodox Christians, Religious Minorities, sanctions, Serbia | 0 |
Amid Bosnia’s greatest political crisis since the end of its 1992-95 interethnic war, the country’s Serbs celebrated an outlawed holiday Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 7, 2022 | Associated Press, Christmas, Church calendar, Church in Europe, News, Orthodox Church, Russia, Serbia | 0 |
Orthodox Christians in Russia, Serbia and other countries began Christmas observances Thursday amid restrictions aimed at dampening the spread of the coronavirus, but few worshipers appeared concerned as they streamed into churches.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 8, 2021 | Geoffroy de Charny, Holy Face of Laon, Jacques Pantaleon, News, Pope Urban IV, Serbia, The Dispatch, The Shroud of Turin, Turin | 0 |
In the mid-13th century, so the story goes, a man obtained an image of the Holy Face. He did not keep it for himself. Rather, he sent it to a Cistercian monastery northeast of Paris. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Montenegro, News, Orthodox Church, Serbia | 0 |
Riot police used tear gas on protesters who fired gunshots in the air and hurled bottles and stones early Sunday in Montenegro before and during an inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 4, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Montenegro, News, Orthodox Church, Serbia | 0 |
Protesters clashed with hundreds of riot police in the old capital of Montenegro on Saturday ahead of the inauguration of the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the small Balkan nation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 5, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Orthodox Church, Serbia | 0 |
The patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church has been hospitalized after testing positive for the new coronavirus, days after leading prayers at a large public funeral for the head of the church in Montenegro, who died after contracting the virus.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 17, 2020 | Balkans, Bosnia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, Croatia, News, Serbia | 0 |
A Bosnian church spokesman said commemorations of the Srebrenica massacre, Europe’s worst since World War II, are still marred by denials, impeding reconciliation 25 years after the Balkan war.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Montenegro, News, Orthodox Christians, Orthodox Church, Serbia | 0 |
Montenegrin police said Thursday they have detained “a number of citizens” following clashes at protests demanding the release of eight Serbian Orthodox Church priests jailed for leading a religious procession despite a ban on gatherings related to the new coronavirus outbreak.
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