SERBIAN CHURCH CONDEMNS CALLS FOR DESTRUCTION OF CHURCES (Albanian wants Serb churches destroyed)

Tanjug ^ | February 11, 2007

[joan]

11.2.2007 16:34 DECANI, (Tanjug) - The Serbian Orthodox Church has condemned in the strongest terms ''barbaric'' messages of Self-Determination movement leader Albin Kurti and other participants of the Saturday demonstrations in Pristina who shouted that ''Serbs occupied Albanian churches and monasteries'' in Kosovo and that they should ''be destroyed.'' Several thousand Kosovo Albanian members of the Self-Determination movement and supporters of the so-called Kosovo liberation army protested against UN special envoy Martti Ahtisaari's plan for the status of Kosovo in Pristina on Saturday.

[joan]

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FYI

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Prayers for God to protect these churches and their people from the maohammedan barbarians.

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maohammedan = mohammedan

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Amen. But I don't hold out much hope.

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Prayer ping for our Orthodox brothers.

[padre35]

And the world yawns.

This is simply stunning to me, I truly hope that those brothers and sisters can retain their lands and monasteries.

[navysealdad]

35+ destroyed churches and monasteries in the Kosovo

All these holy sites, beside dozens of killed and 4,000 displaced Serbs have happened in the presence of 18,000 KFOR troops and thousands of UNMIK policemen.

 

Prizren
1. Holy Virgin of Lyevish - Bogorodica Ljeviska (14th century)
2. Church of Christ the Savior (14th century)
3. Cathedral of St. George (1856)
4. Church of St. Nicholas (Tutic’s church, 14th century)
5. Church of St. Nicholas (Runovic’s church, 16th century)
6. Church of St. Kyriake (14th century, reconstructed later)
7. Church of St. Panteleimon (14th century, reconstructed later)
8. Church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian (14th century, reconstructed)
9. Church of St. Kyriake, Zivinjane, near Prizren
10. Holy Archangels Monastery (14th century)
*Serbian Orthodox Seminary of Sts. Cyril and Methodius
*Bishop’s residence in Prizren

 

Orahovac
11. Church of St. Kyriake, (1852), Brnjaca, Orahovac 1852

 

Dakovica
12. Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (16-19th century), with the parish home.
Cathedral church of the Holy Trinity (two bell-towers which survived the 1999 mining were razed to the ground. Kosovo Albanians remove all material from the site)
13. Church of St. Lazarus, Piskote, near Djakovica

 

Srbica
14. Devic Monastery (15. century) burned to the ground with the tomb of St. Ioanichius of Devic opened and desecrated. Fire was burned in the tomb of the saint.

 

Pec
15. Church of St. John the Baptist (Metropolia, with the parish home)
16. Church of Virgin Mary, Belo Polje nr. Pec, burned again and desecrated
17. Church of St. John the Baptist (Pecka Banja)

Urosevac
18. Cathedral of St. Uros the Emperor, Urosevac
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20………......
(According to the Athens media at least two more Orthodox churches which were under the protection of the Greek KFOR have been left unprotected. Initial information say that these two locations have been destroyed)

 

Kamenica
21. Church in Donja Slapasnica, Kosovska Kamenica
22. Church in Talinovci, nr. Gnjilane

 

Stimlje
23. Church of St. Archangel Michael in Stimlje

 

Pristina
24. Church of St. Nicholas (19 th century), Pristina town

 

Kosovo Polje
25. Church of St Nicholas, Kosovo Polje, burned and desecrated
26. Church of St. Katherine, Bresje nr. Kosovo Polje, burned

 

Vucitrn
27. Church of St. Elias, Vucitrn

 

Obilic
28. Church of St. Michael in Obilic 

 

Kosovska Mitrovica
29. Church of St. Sava, Mitrovica South

 

Podujevo
30. Church of St. Elias, Podujevo

A total of 35 Orthodox churches and monasteries were destroyed or seriously damaged, as well as dozens of cemeteries from which the deceased were unburied and their bones scattered. The tombs of St. Ionnachius of Devic, the Serbian Emperor Dusan and old tombs in the villages of St. George in Prizren and St. Nicholas in Pristina were opened and desecrated. In the churches, hundreds of valuable icons, chalices, vestments and other church valuables were destroyed, as well as medieval frescoes and many church documents (books of baptisms, marriages, deaths).

 

[John Philoponus]

There's nothing anyone in civilized western Europe can do. Not with PC and multi-culti loons running the show. If this keeps up, islam attacking and limp-writed liberals retreating, it's gonna cause a backlash that will see the Far Right come to power. Then God himself can't save the muslims.

[joan]

These are some recent photos of destroyed and desecrated cemeteries. The Albanians won't even let the dead rest in peace.

[wodinoneeye]

The Serbian Orthodox Church should be calling for a Crusade
against the Islamics bent on destruction of anything Christian in their benighted land.

[canuck_conservative]

And what about the 10,000 Kosovars killed by Serbia over the years? Or the 900,000 displaced Kosovar refugees?

BOTH sides are equally brutal in this region; to try and say one is "better" than the other is non-sensical.

[OldCorps]

May Our Lord save the Serbian Orthodox churches in Kosovo.

[joan]

No the number is not 10,000 or even 5,000 from all sides. Even accounting for all of the missing you can't get 5,000 or even 4,000.

Many of the dead were KLA soldiers.

The KLA ordered villagers out when NATO started bombing. This was admitted in court by a commander, and a German journalist who met with KLA commanders, testified he saw priority evacuation lists drawn up by the KLA over a month before NATO bombed.

These villages, controlled by the KLA, were immediately evacuated when NATO started bombing.

The violence was initiated by the Albanians. They started bombing and killing the police, kidnapping civilians, torturing and killing them often. They even kidnapped and tortured Albanians who were loyal to the Serbian government.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

And what about the 10,000 Kosovars killed by Serbia over the years? Or the 900,000 displaced Kosovar refugees?

I agree. But the solution is to hold the mosques hostage to the chuches. Each church detroyed, destroy a certain number of mosques. But if the Muslims are too stupid to understand live-and-let-live, then perhaps we should finish Milosevic's work. After being given a chance by us, they owe it to us to honor the ideal that brought that about.

[canuck_conservative]

Serbia was plenty violent itself, and is hardly an innocent party.

As for "who started it first", that depends on how far back in time you want to go.

Like I said, BOTH sides have blood on their hands.

[Kolokotronis]

Nothing will be done to stop this. We could, but TROP Bush Administration won't do a thing except sacrifice more Orthodox Christians to the dog vomit Albanian bacillus in a sucker move to show the Mohammedans how much the US loves them.

[BenLurkin]

This is the true face of "the Religion of Peace".

Death, destruction and dhimmitude.

[padre35]

Pretty much accurate Joan, the entire "Kosovo" bombing campaign was a sort of spasm of guilt by NATO for allowing the civil war to spread in Yugoslavia.

Both sides may have blood on their hands for different reasons, but only one side is claiming to be protecting the region while Orthodox Churches are burned and the province is ethnically cleansed.

NATO's hippocracy by allowing these things to happen while at the same time saying that "the Serbs will be given protections in an independent Kosovo" is daily joke that makes them look like two faced liars.