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| | Serbia: Unease Over New Saint |
 | | The Serbian Orthodox Church, SPC, confirmed Bishop Nikolaj Velimirovic, who died in 1956, as a saint at a ceremony in Belgrade's Temple of St Sava on May 24. |
 | | Though Velimirovic is acknowledged as a devout churchman and respected religious philosopher, he is also regarded as an anti-Semite who, in 1935, openly praised Adolf Hitler. |
 | | The SPC began to rehabilitate Bishop Nikolaj and his work in 1985, with the publication of a national church programme, which contained all the essential elements of Velimirovic's text, A Warning to Serbian Patriots, which spoke of the inseparability of nationalism and religion. |
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