Kosovo police at the administrative crossing of Merdare did not allow the car with Serbian Patriarch Porfirije to enter territory of Kosovo today around 2:30PM.
SOURCE: KOSOVO ONLINE MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2022 | 15:08
The patriarch stayed in the car for a few minutes on the side controlled by the Kosovo police, then turned around and went back to Kuršumlija.
How scandalous this decision of the authorities in Pristina is, is also shown by the information that the Kosovo government, in an email yesterday informing the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church that he was not granted entry into Kosovo and Metohija, demanded that he distance himself from the Serbs at the barricades, as a condition for his stay in Kosovo.
Pristina banned Serbian Patriarch Porfirije to go to the Patriarchate of Pec ahead of Christmas
Yesterday, Pristina banned Serbian Patriarch Porfirije to go to the Patriarchate of Pec before Christmas.
The statement of the SPC is transmitted to you in its entirety.
"His Holiness the Serbian Patriarch Mr. Porfirije was astonished to receive the news that the authorities in Pristina today forbade him to travel to the Peć Patriarchate, which is the first and centuries-old seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a monastery, before the great feast of the Nativity of Christ, which is celebrated by the entire Christian world to whom the Patriarch is the abbot, that is, the elder.
Patriarch Pofririje does not give up his intention to serve divine service in the Patriarchate of Pec and expects that this extremely discriminatory decision will be repealed and that the trampling of the human rights and religious freedoms of Orthodox Serbs living in the Province, on the land of their ancestors, where the Serbian people lived continuously for at least fifteen hundred years.
His Holiness, Patriarch Mr. Porfirije prays to God for peace and goodwill among all people, and especially prays for peace to prevail between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo and Metohija, where they have lived together for centuries," the statement of the Serbian Orthodox Church reads.
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