Who Will Protect Kosovo’s Christians?

Acton Institute ^ | May 24, 2006 | by John Couretas, Director of Communications

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Who Will Protect Kosovo’s Christians?

by John Couretas, Director of Communications

This week, Montenegro voted to end its union with Serbia, the last remaining alliance of the former Yugoslav federation. News accounts of the vote frequently add matter-of-factly that Kosovo, the Serb province placed under the administration of the United Nations in 1999, is next in line to gain its independence and probably by the end of the year.

But anyone who cares about religious freedom, the rights of minorities, and the rule of law should be highly skeptical of an independent Kosovo. Since 1999, when a NATO bombing campaign drove out Serb military forces fighting an Albanian separatist movement, the Orthodox Christian minority in Kosovo has been under intense pressure from Albanian Muslim extremists.

In a Feb. 18 letter to President George Bush, the Serbian Orthodox bishop Artemije of Kosovo and Metohija – the ranking church official in the region – said that granting the province independence would hand terrorists “a significant victory” in Europe.

“Detaching Kosovo from democratic Serbia would mean a virtual sentence of extinction for my people in the province – the larger part of my diocese – who continue to face unremitting violence from jihad terrorist and criminal elements that dominate the Albanian Muslim leadership,” the bishop said....................

[F.J. Mitchell]

Christianity is the bane of the UN and it's agenda. The UN has united with evil in all it's ugly forms against Christianity, and is totally devoted to it's destruction.

Christians can count on nothing from the UN, except persecution.

[Lion in Winter]

"Christians can count on nothing from the UN, except persecution."

You said it, brother... and it's the truth.