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	Serbian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The issue over the Orthodox jurisdiction in Macedonia is a subject of debate between the SOC and the Macedonian Orthodox Church which has yet to gain recognition of autonomy from the SOC although it does operate on the territory of the former Yugoslav republic.
		The Serbs migrated to the Balkans during the reign of Byzantine emperor Heraclius (610-641).
		Encompasses Orthodox Serbs in Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Serb_Orthodox_Church (1258 words)

	Eastern Orthodoxy
		The "Eastern" churches with the largest number of adherents, according to the primary and narrow sense of "Eastern Orthodox," are the Russian and the Greek Orthodox.
		The Oriental Orthodox Churches are not members of this communion, nor are groups such as the Old Believers or the Greek Old Calendarists.
		Today the Russian Orthodox Church, in spite of 70 years of persecution under the atheistic government of the USSR, is the largest of the Orthodox Churches.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/e/ea/eastern_orthodoxy.html (3584 words)

	SRPcleanse2
		The Serbs met the disintegration of the Yugoslav state, conditioned by the secession of communist federal units, in a foreign-political environment which was less favorable than at the beginning of the century, when they entered a common state with the Croats and the Slovenes rashly and hastily.
		The Serb state, under the Radical leadership, shall cooperate with the Serb Orthodox Church in the joint cultivation of the Serb national tradition and patriotism, and upbringing of the youth in the Serb Orthodox spirit.
		The Serb Radical Party holds that the national minority question and the protection of their rights and freedoms are among the indicators of the true respect for the principle of the equitable status and equality of citizens, and also an important indicator of the level of development of democratic relations in a country.
	www.haverford.edu /relg/sells/reports/srpclean2.htm (1953 words)

	Serbian Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The SOC also has jurisdiction over the Serbian diaspora in the Americas, Western Europe and Australia.
		Following the arrival of the Ottomans and mass migrations of Serbs to lands under the Catholic Habsburgs of Austria, a portion of the Eastern Orthodox Serbs were uniatized under pressure, that is converted to Roman Catholicism while maintaining the Eastern Rite.
		The descendants of some these Serbs, living mostly in Žumberak are under a separate jurisdiction, the Eparchy of Krizevci.
	www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Serb_Orthodox_Church (1051 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Serb Orthodox Church (Српска православна црква; SPC, SOC) is a body of some 11 million Orthodox Christians united under the Serb Patriarch who includes Archbishop of Peć and Metropolitan of Belgrade and Karlovci in his title.
		The issue over the Orthodox jurisdiction in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia is a subject of debate between the SOC and the Macedonian Orthodox Church which has yet to gain recognition of autonomy from the SOC although it does operate on the territory of the former Yugoslav republic.
		Following the arrival of the Ottomans and mass migrations of Serbs to lands under the Catholic Hapsburgs of Austria, a portion of the Eastern Orthodox Serbs were uniatized under pressure, that is converted to Roman Catholicism while maintaining the Eastern Rite.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Serbian_Orthodox_Church (1116 words)

	Serb Orthodox Church Demands Milosevic Resignation
		The church said the departure of Milosevic and his government would be in the interest of the Serb people.
		President Bill Clinton told the Serb people last week that as long their country is ``ruled by an indicted war criminal, we will provide no support for the reconstruction of Serbia.'' Aid can come only when the Yugoslav government ``represents tolerance and freedom, not repression and terror,'' he said.
		Serb convoys jammed roads in southern Kosovo, although vehicle breakdowns and fuel shortages complicated the evacuation.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3767149d425c.htm (1415 words)

	Serbian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Serbian Orthodox Church finally regained its independance and became autocephalous in 1879, the year after the recognition by the Great Powers of Serbia as an independent state.
		After the Second World War the Church experienced new trials under the communists who prohibited teaching of religion in schools, confiscated the property of the Church and using various overt and covert means of persecution in order to diminish the influence the Church had among the people.
		The supreme authority of the Serbian Church, the Holy Synod, is composed of all its bishops, who meet once a year in May. There is also a standing Synod of four members who administer the day-to-day affairs of the church, which is estimated to number some nine million faithful.
	www.kosovo.com /soceng.html (768 words)

	Pravda.RU Christmas Eve: Belgrade Scared With Activity of Young Radicals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Serb Orthodox Church hierarchs expressed regret in connection with the incident which occurred near the building of the Serb Patriarchate on the night of catholic Christmas.
		The Serb Orthodox Church reported that “the initiators of the incident obviously don’t understand the basic Orthodox and Christian principles; judging by their aggressive behavior these people are not friends to the Serb people and the Serb Orthodox Church.” More details...
		The Russian Orthodox Church does not cease to claim the categorical necessity for the Vatican to change its policy towards Russia, said chairman of external church relations department of the Moscow Patriarchate Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Cyril during a phone linkup with readers of the Izvestia newspaper.
	english.pravda.ru /society/2002/12/26/41400.html (2946 words)

	Serbian Orthodox Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Later, as the medieval kingdom of Serbia grew in size and prestige and Stefan Dusan, king of Serbia from 1331, assumed the imperial title of tsar in 1346 to 1355, the Archbishopric of Pec was correspondingly raised to the rank of Patriarchate.
		The Patriarchate was thus de facto abolished, and the Serbian Church passed under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
		A text by Dimitrije Bogdanovic focusing on the suffering of the Serb Orthodox Church amidst the century long conflict between Serbs and Albanians in Kosovo.
	www.kosovo.com /socheng.html (992 words)

	State church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Its largest surviving offshoots are the Free Church of Scotland[?] and the United Free Church of Scotland[?].
		State churches tend to enjoy the allegiance of the majority of their country; however much of this support is little more than nominal, with many members of the church rarely attending it.
		After independence in 1917 Finland gave State Church status to both the Church of Finland (successor to the Church of Sweden in Finland) and the Finnish Orthodox Church (successor to the Russian Orthodox Church in Finland).
	www.city-search.org /st/state-church.html (789 words)

	A Career: Bishop Artemije The Serb Makarios - BETAWEEK, E 2, July 8, 1999
		The Church is the only Serbian institution of authority left in the province, and the bishop has accepted an active role in politics in an effort to protect the remaining Serbs from armed Albanian groups who desire vengeance for former pogroms and abuses.
		Church officials say that its leaders in Kosovo were simply forced into politics, as all those who should look after the security of the people have left the province.
		When he was enthroned as the Bishop of Raska and Prizren he came to realize the tragedy of the Serbs and the Serb Orthodox church in Kosovo and became a fierce critic of the policy of the authorities in Belgrade, accusing them of persecuting both the Serbs and Albanians.
	www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/back262.htm (1468 words)

	The Symbolism of Destruction
		The Serbs are Orthodox Christians; the Croats, Roman Catholics; Bosnians and the majority of Kosovar Albanians, Muslims.
		This pattern was started in Croatia in 1991: Serbs blasted the Croats' Catholic churches from afar, showing off their supremacy with artillery and tanks; the Croats, in turn, were coldly efficient, reducing Serb Orthodox churches to piles of rubble by demolition charges at night.
		To Serbs, that was the state that gave them the right to rule Kosovo with total disregard for the Albanian majority; to Albanians that was the state of oppression, of human rights abuses and second-rate status.
	www.motherjones.com /news/special_reports/total_coverage/kosovo/kusovac.html (1041 words)

	Bosnian Institute News: The Scandal in Prohor Pcinjski
		Given that the Orthodox churches are divided, let everyone pray in their own church without pressure, without seeking assimilation and without contesting the existence of other churches.
		When the SPC leaders talk of church canons, they interpret them in their own way, as if they were still living in the middle ages, when the church wielded power sometimes greater than the state, when church anathemas were feared and people dreaded excommunication.
		But we live in the twenty-first century, when people have the right to belong to a church of their choice or none at all, when they are treated as followers not servants of the church.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /news/news_body.cfm?newsid=1808 (869 words)

	Analysis: Serbs split on vote in Kosovo - (United Press International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The influential Serb Orthodox Church, which is close to Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica, has called for a boycott, but Serb President Boris Tadic has given his conditional support to the election.
		Serbs remain concerned by the lack of freedom of movement in Kosovo, where they fear attacks by ethnic-Albanians, and the decentralization issue.
		Serbs will be blamed again and there may be a re-eruption of violence, like in March, when 19 people were killed and Serb Orthodox Churches burned.
	www.washtimes.com /upi-breaking/20041021-073616-8088r.htm (994 words)

	Serb church blown up in Kosovo, second damaged -UN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		PRISTINA, Yugoslavia - A Serb Orthodox church in western Kosovo was blown up on Sunday morning and another was damaged overnight, a spokesman for the United Nations mission in charge of the Yugoslav province said.
		"At 0600 (0500 GMT) on Sunday, the Orthodox church Saint Vasil of Ostrog, in the village of Ljubovo west of Istok, was totally destroyed," U.N. spokesman Andrea Angeli told Reuters.
		Serb Orthodox Bishop Artemije said the bombings were the latest in a campaign that has damaged or destroyed 110 Serb religious sites since the United Nations arrived.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/nov02/hed5327.shtml (336 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| Macedonia upholds Orthodox bishop's jail term, Reuters, September 19, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Bishop Jovan of Ohrid, a central figure in a decades-old row between the rival Macedonian and Serb churches, was jailed on July 26 for inciting ethnic and religious hatred by holding a secret Sunday mass in a flat in the southern town of Bitola.
		The Macedonian Orthodox church split from the Serb Orthodox Church in 1967, insisting its southwestern Lake Ohrid region was an ancient cradle of Orthodoxy and the Serb church is daughter of the Macedonian.
		Bishop Jovan, whose name is Zoran Vraniskovski, was defrocked by the Macedonian church as a traitor two years ago for siding with the Serb Orthodox Church in the dispute.
	news.suc.org /bydate/2005/September_19/4.html (324 words)

	Bosnia Report - July - September 2000
		By making the Kosovo Serbs and their churches into a special case, the party is in effect seeking Kosovo's partition - and the means in future for Serbia to intervene in its internal life.
		This is not surprising, given that the Serb Orthodox Church claims as its own the rights and property of the Montenegrin Orthodox Church abolished by King Alexander in the 1920s.
		The Serb Orthodox clergy are today busily creating their own mini-state within Montenegro: it is only a matter of time before these ‘holy Serb sites’ too are proclaimed ‘extraterritorial’.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=958&reportid=157 (2048 words)

	NIN: Interview with Fr. Sava from Decani - Bloody Tracks
		The interview was made before the meeting and agreement of the delegation of the Church and Serbs from Kosovo with the Albanian community led by Hashim Thaqi, and large disturbances during celebrations of the anniversary of the "Kacanik Constitution".
		The Serb Church has said what is necessary: president Milosevic's regime must depart from Serbia forever and a contemporary democratic society must be established.
		Besides the Church, the people who wish to fight for the survival of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija are getting organized and working to unite their forces.
	www.ex-yupress.com /nin/nin10.html (1638 words)

	166 Year Old Church in Kosovo Destroyed [Free Republic]
		Serb Orthodox Church of St. Elijah in Vucitrn, central Kosovo was
		It was also in their area of responsibility that on January 30 the Serb Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas was blown up in the nearby deserted Serb village of Banjska.
		Eight Serb children were seriously wounded yesterday (August 18) in village of Crkvene vodice near Obilic in explosion of the bomb thrown from one car, reported by Serb radio-amateurs from central Kosovo area.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a399dc6af480e.htm (2052 words)

	Untitled
		Quoting the Serb media, the paper said that Father Sava, spokesman of the Serb National Council of Graçanica, said that the trouble erupted after the grenades were thrown, leading to nearly 1,000 Serbs gathering there, who clashed with the soldiers of the Swedish KFOR contingent.
		The Serb National Council (SNC) in Graçanica has nominated the members of the delegation who are to travel to New York, where they intend to present to the UN Security Council details on "victimization of Serb people in Kosovo", reported Zëri on page four, referring to the Belgrade-based Beta news agency.
		Batic also said that Serbs in Kosovo cannot be a minority since the status of minorities was determined according to the number of the residents in the whole country, reiterating that "Kosovo is an integral part of Serbia".
	www.unmikonline.org /press/mon/lmm070600.html (2921 words)

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		The Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric was formed in 2002 following a failure in negociations between the Serb Orthodox Church and the canonically-unconstitutional and unrecognized Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC).
		Whereas the Holy Synod of the MOC rejected the so-called Niš agreement a few bishops broke ranks and agreed to form the autonomous church under tutelage of the Belgrade Patriarchy.
		The MOC has reacted by ordering the state authorities to issue arrest warrants for all clergy of the Ohrid Archbishopric, to prevent bishops of the Serb Orthodox Church from entering Macedonia.
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Orthodox_Ohrid_Archbishopric (171 words)

	NATO vows hunt for Karadzic will go on amid growing Bosnian Serb anger
		NATO troops used explosives to blast into the priest's home near an Orthodox church in Karadzic's wartime stronghold of Pale, which they raided after receiving a credible tip-off that the Bosnian Serb wartime leader was hiding there.
		However, the Serb member of the presidency Borislav Paravac condemned SFOR saying the "excessive use of force was obvious".
		On Friday church officials threatened to cut off relations with international and local authorities if SFOR troops who carried out the operation are not punished.
	www.spacewar.com /2004/040402155815.uqlpp1o2.html (630 words)

	News Story \| Serbianna.com
		Serbs have been unwilling to arrest any of the two men and NATO troops deployed here since the end of the war have tried to catch them but with no success.
		Holbrooke believes that financed by criminals and protected by the Serb Orthodox Church, it seems unlikely Karadzic will be arrested without the help of an insider.
		U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia, Douglas McElhaney, has recently tried to speak to representatives of the Serb Orthodox Church and convince them it was in the interest of the Serbs to hand over the suspects.
	www.serbianna.com /news/2005/01670.html (598 words)

	Darwin or Adam and Eve?
		The announcements from the Government of Serbia and the Serb Orthodox Church on the introduction of catechism into elementary and secondary school raised the question whether Serbia will in the future be defined as a civil or a religious state
		The Serb Orthodox Church, however, has the ambition to make catechism a compulsory subject both in elementary and secondary schools as of 2001 already.
		The Church sharply responded by stating that the mentioned assessment was “the fear of Satan”, and that the Serb Orthodox Church would “never impose anything on anyone, but just offer the beneficial word of Christ’s Gospel”.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2000/Darwin.html (800 words)

	Destruction of the Serbian churches and monasteries!!! - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Serbian Orthodox Church and its Historical and Religious heritage are exposed to systematic destruction and extermination in the very presence of the most powerful armed forces of the world and in the very heart of Europe.
		The Monastery and the Church of St Archangels, in Gornje Nerodimlje, were built in the 14th century and renewed in the year 1700.
		Destruction of Christian Orthodox churches, desecration of graveyards and murders of the clergy were often used as a method by Albanian Moslem extremists to blot out all traces of the Serbian presence in Kosovo
	p086.ezboard.com /fserbiacafefrm3.showMessage?topicID=25.topic (1024 words)

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